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Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#41

Post by AgentConundrum » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 6:26 AM UTC

One thing that became immediately apparent to me is that you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?).

The reason, of course, is that not everyone has the ability to scroll. Personally, I use a laptop as my primary machine and only have the touchpad as my pointing device. There is a way to scroll with the touchpad, but it's incredibly painful to use, and is very hit or miss on my machine. Also, I don't know how common they are today since I haven't bought one in years, but I'm sure there are users that are still using old mice without scrollers.

That said, very nice site. I can see it being very useful to me in the near future.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#42

Post by AgentConundrum » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 6:36 AM UTC

AgentConundrum wrote: post #41

One thing that became immediately apparent to me is that you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?). The reason, of course, is that not everyone has the ability to scroll. Personally, I use a laptop as my primary machine and only have the touchpad as my pointing device. There is a way to scroll with the touchpad, but it's incredibly painful to use, and is very hit or miss on my machine. Also, I d…

One other thing - call this a feature request.

The problem I've been having with colouring my site has less to do with finding a colour, and more to do with finding a complimentary colour. Perhaps somewhere down the line you could include the ability to create a small pocket in the middle of the screen, so that you could:

a) lock the surrounding colour, and change only the colour of the pocket as you scroll around. This helps for creating things like navigation items, where you have a background in mind, and need to create something which stands out without clashing. You could even include the ability to set the background to an uploaded picture, since some sites don't have solid-colour backgrounds.

b) lock the pocket, keep the rest of the site as-is. It could help with things like setting the background for a preselected image. Likewise, you could allow the pocket itself to contain said image.

/2c

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#43

Post by gruseom » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 6:41 AM UTC

AgentConundrum wrote: post #41

One thing that became immediately apparent to me is that you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?). The reason, of course, is that not everyone has the ability to scroll. Personally, I use a laptop as my primary machine and only have the touchpad as my pointing device. There is a way to scroll with the touchpad, but it's incredibly painful to use, and is very hit or miss on my machine. Also, I d…

you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?)

How about up/down arrows?

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#44

Post by AgentConundrum » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 7:48 AM UTC

gruseom wrote: post #43

AgentConundrum wrote: post #41

One thing that became immediately apparent to me is that you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?). The reason, of course, is that not everyone has the ability to scroll. Personally, I use a laptop as my primary machine and only have the touchpad as my pointing device. There is a way to scroll with the touchpad, but it's incredibly painful to use, and is very hit or miss on my machine. Also, I d…

you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?) How about up/down arrows?

Up/down arrows would be fine too. The +/- thing was just the first thing off the top of my head; the important thing is just providing the alternative.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#45

Post by AgentConundrum » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 7:52 AM UTC

DanielStraight wrote: post #34

araneae wrote: post #26

Only one major problem I see; you can't "hold" any colors that are under the hex or rgb values, because if you click there it copies the values instead. But of course that's a trade off, because that's a cool feature to have.

Indeed. The box should jump to the top if you hover over it before locking a color.

I don't even think it needs to jump; in fact, that might actually be a bit jarring to the user.

Instead, why not have it so that that whole area is disabled (i.e. it doesn't interfere with the click-to-hold functionality) until the user holds on a colour? You click anywhere, enabling the bubble, you do your copy, then click anywhere outside the bubble to continue.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#46

Post by FluidDjango » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 12:12 PM UTC

Very handy. And exquisitely executed.

Also, perhaps you've tweaked it since some of the other comments, but two-finder scrolling (MBP trackpad, Safari 5.0.2) works great for me. Took me a while to figure that I needed to shrink window enough to see scroll bars (and thus be able to scroll and manipulate luminosity.

I've got it bookmarked, so if you are generous enough to keep it at aurlien.net I'll definitely make a lot of use of it. Great work && great service.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#47

Post by rntz » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 1:09 AM UTC

icegreentea wrote: post #28

rntz wrote: post #27

I'm not able to scroll. No scroll bar appears, page-down and page-up don't work. chromium-7.0.517.41 on linux. Anyone else have this problem? Am I missing something?

Think you need to use the scroll wheel on your mouse.

ENOENT

(I don't have a mouse on my laptop. I have a touchpad, and it is able to scroll by swiping or circular motions, but that didn't work on the page when I tried it.)