[projectaon] Re: Action Chart 3.0 Beta!!
- From: Sam Seaver <samseaver@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:24:39 -0500
It might be my British-acquired innuendo but I would strongly advise
against calling it a "throbber" effect...
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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