[Sugar-devel] New toolbar in Memorize

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Thanks a lot!
I will work on it now.

Gonzalo

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> On 9 Sep 2011, at 18:44, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>
> 2011/9/9 manuel quiñones <manuq at laptop.org>
>
> As Simon said, I think that the cog button should toggle to edit mode
> directly, no need for a "click to edit" toggle button in the
> subtoolbar.  As it is a toggle, we should disable activation when
> hovering on it (I think this has to be done globally for al toggles in
> a toolbox, maybe a Sugar change?).
>
>
> I think this behavior will be inconsistent with all the other activities.
> We discussed this a lot when implemented  Record toolbars.
>
>
> I've been working with Simon on the Memorize toolbar here at Paris Sugar
> Camp #2, hopefully you'll find this consistent :)
>
> Below are the two mockups, the first shows the Memorize toolbar in Play
> mode. The activity toolbar is now the only toolbutton with a secondary
> toolbar. Start new game icon (Memorize icon with the spark badge) is
> insensitive when the game is in a fresh unused state, and once you start to
> play and turn over cards Start new becomes sensitive (so the game can be
> reset – the mockup below shows the initial game state has already been
> modified). Manual saving and loading of games has been removed:
>
>
>
> The second mockup shows the toolbar in Edit mode. The game playing features
> are made insensitive, the edit feature made sensitive, and the edit canvas
> is drawn:
>
>
>
>
> We should replace the current "click to edit" button with a "New game"
> button to start from scratch.  The icon can be the one for "click to
> edit".
>
>
> We should change the icon for "restart game", maybe using the sparkle
> alone?  Something in the line of this?
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/memorize_design/memorize_restart_button.png
>
>
> Hmm, I don't like it. May be we can use a single big sparkle. And change
> the icon in other similar cases,
> like implode.
>
>
> The mockups above show radio switching between the Play mode (using the
> standard media play icon) and the Edit mode (the cog icon), with the Start
> new game (reset currently loaded game) functionality using the Memorize icon
> with the spark badge. It is far away from the Activity icon to avoid
> confusion, and is made sensitive once a game's state has been modified.
>
>
>
> For the clear game button, we may use the icon 'X' inside a square
> fill, as in Gary's mockup here:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Memorize_edit_toolbar_view.png
>
>
> Yes, this is true. I will replace it
>
>
> Yes, I've used this icon (originally from Paint) in the above mockups,
> clicking it should clear the current game cards (button is sensitive in edit
> mode only).
>
>
>
> Another thing: I expect that if I edit a game and then come back to
> play mode, I get the modified game reloaded.
>
>
> Good point. May be, can be updated when we save the game.
> If the user restart the game must use the new updated tiles.
>
>
> Editing the cards and then playing should be as seamless as possible. Note
> that saving and loading have been removed completely from Memorize, the game
> card set would be kept in its Journal entry. If a user wants to make a new
> separate set of cards based on an existing set, they would use the new
> Journal --> Duplicate feature, and then resume that and edit it as needed.
>
> Switching from Edit mode to Play mode would automatically start a new game
> (with your new card changes), but only if the user has modified the cards
> (clicking the edit cog icon part way through a game and then clicking play
> again without card changes should carry on with the existing game).
>
>
>
> I would like to discuss this topics in the design meeting next Monday.
>
>
> I'll try to stay logged into irc tomorrow as much as possible during the
> day (before my flight back to the UK), so please do ping so we can talk over
> any unclear details. The Memorize toolbar rework has been really tricky, it
> seems to have so many unusual edge cases!
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> Ok, thanks by the review!
>
> Regards,
>
> 2011/9/8 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
> > On 09/08/2011 01:33 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>
> >> Simon also complained about how is implemented the change of mode to
> >> create/play.
> >> Have the Design Team any other idea?
> >>
> >> Gonzalo
> >
> > To phrase out my 'complain':) In the edit sub-toolbar you have to click
> on
> > the edit button at the far left to start editing and the edit canvas is
> > shown. To get out of the edit mode you have to click on that toggle
> button
> > again. It took me a while to figure that out. Maybe the button should
> > change, based on the mode it is in. Also you can expand/shrink the
> toolbar
> > while the full edit view is open which is a bit confusing.
> >
> > Another option: I thought to display the full edit view when you click on
> > the edit button, Gonzalo was worried that this would cause issues when
> you
> > hover over the button (maybe we disable hovering in that case?).
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Simon
> >
>
>
>
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>
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