[projectaon] Re: Action Chart 3.0 Beta!!
- From: Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 01:00:29 +0800
On 3 June 2011 00:31, Eric Zollman <ericzollman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah your right. In the real world you can sometimes roll a 0 twice in a
> row. Maybe I can have it flip through 5 or 6 numbers real quick and then
> stop on the last one.
>
I was just going to suggest that. :-) It's a problem I've noticed with other
stats programs in the past -- you're never quite sure that the random
number's definitely been freshly generated if it hasn't changed. So some
sort of user feedback to say "rolling now... done" is important, I think.
And flicking through some numbers does the job -- it really gets across the
notion of "picking a random value".
It's not the only possible feedback; another idea would be to use a
"throbber" effect, like perhaps changing the background of the random number
area to a different colour, then fading it back to normal, or like
temporarily zooming in on it.
--
Tim Pederick
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