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Image import for coverflow component
Been using the coverflow component for a series of screens depicting catalog interactions. To make things a little more realistic, have been placing an image component over the center coverflow frame and importing pictures from both local and Flickr sources. Then I group the two elements for positioning, resizing, etc.
You can see where this is headed: since coverflow is all about image browsing, why not give that component the new image upload capability? Seems like a perfectly natural extension, and would save a couple of steps.
Also, not to beat the topic to death, would still like to upload small images within the icon-with-label component.
You can see where this is headed: since coverflow is all about image browsing, why not give that component the new image upload capability? Seems like a perfectly natural extension, and would save a couple of steps.
Also, not to beat the topic to death, would still like to upload small images within the icon-with-label component.
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Inappropriate?Good idea Michael, let me take a look. As for the icon-with-label component, the only thing that’s been stopping me is that I haven't figured out how to create a simple UI for it...either you choose an icon with the icon inspector or you choose an image with the image pull-down...how can the two be combined in a clean way? Perhaps you have some ideas?
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Inappropriate?A couple of thoughts on how it could work:
1. Importing from a Web address and from Flickr makes no sense for icons, so there's no need for the three-way import control used by images. Only local file system import is needed.
2. The import trigger could be a pulldown selection very similar to the image control's "Default Placeholder / Import Image..." options. The icon component would have "Icon Inspector / Import Icon" options instead of the current "icon search" button. The first option opens the existing menu of built-in icons, while the second option launches the local file import menu.
3. Icon size is an issue. There needs to be a way to prevent users from inadvertently bringing in a 600x600 "icon", in part because that will mess up the icon-with-text variant. Maybe a cap of 36x36, with automatic scaling if the source PNG exceeds that?
4. If the user sketchifies the icon, the existing color control should work. If not, not.
Clean enough, or showing lots of wrinkles?
I’m cautiously optimistic.
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Inappropriate?Hi Michael, I'm not super-convinced. I don't agree that Web and Flickr makes no sense for icons...I can totally see myself looking for an icon on Flickr or via Google Image search and wanting to bring it in Mockups. Also, your suggested design removes the quick search for icons, which is the only way I add icons today. To sum it up, using the image control + a label and grouping them seems like such a cleaner workflow for me...what's the biggest pain point in doing so for you today?
I’m unsure
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Inappropriate?Peldi, you're right that the main issue is the manual grouping of image and label. The problem for me is that, in the evolution of screen designs, the text label for a given icon will often change. (The functions bound to these icons are often highly specialized, which accounts for my interest both in importing icon images and in easy re-labeling.) Aside from the three-part icon+label+grouping process, any revision to a label requires un-grouping, editing, and regrouping the pair. Not a big issue if you do it occasionally, but kind of tedious if you do it a lot.
One last possibility: to preserve the icon quick search option, suppose "Import" were added to the bottom of the sources listed in the inspector (Arrows, Browser, Media, etc.) Selecting "Import" would then display the existing file/web/flickr import mechanism on the right, where the icon previews are otherwise shown.1 Comment
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Thanks Michael, I get it now. What if I allowed you to double-click on a group control to "enter it", just like Flash does for movieclips? That way to edit an icon label you'd double click on it, edit the label in the group and click anywhere else to get out of the group.
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Inappropriate?A double-click to dive into a group would cure most of the current headache, and would help in other contexts, too.
I’m liking the sound of that.
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I will be adding this to the next release after 1.5, it's a very hard feature so I want to get 1.5 out of the way first.
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Inappropriate?I have added image support to the Coverflow component for 1.5, this will make my "iTunes in 2 minutes" demo even cooler and faster! :)
Check it: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mock...
I’m happy
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Very nice ... simple and consistent with the image component, right down to that handy sketch option. Many thanks.
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