[Cuis-dev] Draggable visual properties [WAS: Color Editor adds alpha-transparency slider]

[Juan Vuletich]

On 09/02/2022 08:09 p.m., ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I see that I made a fundamental UI mistake.  I added something special 
> but did not make it _look_ special.

Great insight!

>
> For the Drag 'n Drop of Morph visual properties, the menu item text is 
> now in a shade of purple, and in the Color Editor, the draggable 
> swatches are bordered in a purple.

Good idea. Another alternative would be to use a specific icon.

> It would be nice when picking up a value to show all the possible drop 
> sites, but this would be computationally expensive.
>
> I am not particularly wedded to purple, so other color ideas or ways 
> of showing D'nD specialness would be welcomed.
>
> Anyone interested, please
>  re-pull Cuis-Smalltalk-UI
>  Feature require: 'UI-Tools'
> and have a look.
>
> Thanks much!
> -KenD
>
>
> --------------------------------
> On 2022-02-08 17:31, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> On 08/02/2022 07:30 p.m., ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> ..
>>> Try dragging a color swatch from editor onto a color menu item in 
>>> the Morph's menu.
>>>
>>> Or you can use the menu to get a Drop Target for the Morph and drag 
>>> a DropColor swatch or menu item property onto the DropTarget.  You 
>>> then get a menu of  setters to choose from.
> ..
>
>> Oh, the drop is on the _menu item_ ! That's not obvious to me!

Thanks,

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