The slider! It is neat!

[Gábor Lehel]

On 1/21/06, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:38, Gábor Lehel wrote:
> > On 1/21/06, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > > I only now noticed the dropdown opacity slider -- neat! And I bet that
> > > the two or three little niggles are already on someone's todo...
> > >
> > > * The slider should be right-aligned with the button (i.e., the the right
> > > hand side of the slider should be aligned with the right-hand side of the
> > > button) * The button should be as high as the input field
> > > * opacity changed signals should only be emitted on mouse-up
> >
> > Actually, I found it very neat how it shows the opacity actually
> > changing while you're dragging it. Spent a few minutes just playing
> > around with it, in fact. Instant feedback is good.
>
> But possibly _very_ slow, too. I'm working on caching chunks of the rendering
> stack -- per group and per adjustment layer --, but even so, if you'd try to
> set the opacity of one of the bottom layers in a large stack, it'd be too
> slow to accurately use the slider.

That's true... but in that case you can type in a number manually, perhaps?



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