[RkWard-devel] colors

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 20:40, Stefan Roediger wrote:
> I think the current solution
> is good and actually I see no real good reason to put more effort into
> this.

I agree that it's good enough for now, and certainly not much of a priority. 
Just something that "would be nice to have in the long run" (and we have 
quite a lot of todo items of that variety, and many of a higher importance).

> Keeping that in mind would limit the need for a sophisticated color
> selection module. Moreover I took me about 10 minutes to add circa 70
> colors as a dropdown list and I bet it wouldn't take much to add the
> remaining 600 something. The bad part of this is that the plot options file
> might be less nice to read but hey every developer can see "nothing
> important is happening here in the code so lets skip it". Therefore I
> wonder are there real good reasons not to keep it as dropdown list?

I'd be more worried about whether it will be too useful with 600 entries. 70 
choices is quite a lot to pick from, already. 600 entries - in my opinion - 
is just too much to handle (spanning many times the height of the screen). So 
I'd suggest to leave it as is.

> Another question related to this is how to handle color, linetypes, symbols
> and so on for multiple data series. Wouldn't dropdown list be a good
> solution?

The real problem to tackle is representing the idea, that a certain set of 
options (of whatever type, be it text input, numbers, dropdown lists, ... 
this should not make much of a difference, technically) can be set separately 
for each of a number of items (and one default). There's simply no such 
concept in the code, so far (but of course, it's on the TODO list...).

Regards
Thomas
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