[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/8539 Hold Shift in sprite and maptile editor to move faster, type a pal index

[Ralph Versteegen]

On 15 March 2017 at 03:21, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> Interesting!
>
> Right away, the palette numbers felt off-by-one to me, because typing 1
> selected 0, and typing 0 got me nothing-- but when I started thinking of
> them as palette hot-keys rather than typing in a number, it felt
> comfortable again.
>

Considering that the palette numbers aren't actually displayed anywhere,
I'm inclined to argue that it's all in your head!
However, this is going to be a problem once the sprite editor supports
using the master palette directly without a subpalette. I guess in that
mode it will have to switch to 0-based input.

Also, 0 selects the tenth colour.


> The time-out for typing two digit numbers is very well tuned, and after
> playing with it for a while, my original misgivings melted away, and I am
> very happy with it.
>

First I tried a second, but that was too much, so I reduced it to half a
second, and that was good enough. And coincidentally, that's also how long
the colour index displays for after you change palette index :)


> I like that I can treat my first 9 colors like hotkeys, and at the same
> time, I still have quick access to the other colors.
>

I wouldn't have bothered allowing access to colours above the tenth, but of
course the plan is to increase the Palette16 palette size soon anyway. I
still haven't figured out how to display the UI for that, probably in rows
of 16, and maybe show at most 2-3 rows at once... or switch between showing
the whole master palette at once vs the whole subpalette.

(Having a subpalette with over 100 colours is of course useless in most
cases, except when you take a sprite imported or drawn to use the master
palette directly and then want to palette swap it.)

>
> I haven't done any extensive spriting work since this was checked in, but
> I have the feeling it is a feature I will be using a lot :)
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:00 AM, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> teeemcee
>> 2017-03-14 06:00:41 -0700 (Tue, 14 Mar 2017)
>> 108
>> Hold Shift in sprite and maptile editor to move faster, type a pal index
>> w/ number keys in the sprite editor
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>> U   wip/custom_udts.bi
>> U   wip/drawing.bas
>> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
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