Line Colours in Map Editor with 5.4.1
Having finally got around to updating my install to 5.4.1 I was trying to work out how the line colours had appeared in the official builds (I'm on Windows). I see the ini file entries in both xtherion.ini and xtherion.new.ini, all commented out in both files. So I am assuming the colours are set by some hard coded defaults unless over ridden in the ini file? Why are there two ini files? Are they both used by the application? When this feature was first provided (via the email list) for testing, I commented that some of the default colours were not ideal from my experience. In particular the use of 'brown' for unselected walls in the active scrap is not so easy to tell from the red selected item. As users are already accustomed to the blue wall lines in the active scrap, I changed this one to blue. Rock borders look the same colour as survey legs and splays in background sketches brought in from PocketTopo, so I changed these to purple. So the only two changes I have to add into my ini file are: set xth(gui,me,wallcolor) blue set xth(gui,me,rockcolor) purple The blue walls work well with the blue controlfill because the control points only appear on selected lines, where the line is turned red. So this is not confused with blue wall lines which are not selected. I would like to propose these colours be made the defaults as I think it makes the editor easier to use, and I would like to reflect the default colours in the screenshots in my tutorial documents when I update them to reflect the latest release. Footleg
I am supporting this proposal from my experience. Am 2017-08-11 15:09, schrieb Footleg via Therion:
Having finally got around to updating my install to 5.4.1 I was trying to work out how the line colours had appeared in the official builds (Im on Windows). I see the ini file entries in both xtherion.ini and xtherion.new.ini, all commented out in both files. So I am assuming the colours are set by some hard coded defaults unless over ridden in the ini file?
Why are there two ini files? Are they both used by the application?
When this feature was first provided (via the email list) for testing, I commented that some of the default colours were not ideal from my experience. In particular the use of brown for unselected walls in the active scrap is not so easy to tell from the red selected item. As users are already accustomed to the blue wall lines in the active scrap, I changed this one to blue.
Rock borders look the same colour as survey legs and splays in background sketches brought in from PocketTopo, so I changed these to purple. So the only two changes I have to add into my ini file are:
set xth(gui,me,wallcolor) blue
set xth(gui,me,rockcolor) purple
The blue walls work well with the blue controlfill because the control points only appear on selected lines, where the line is turned red. So this is not confused with blue wall lines which are not selected.
I would like to propose these colours be made the defaults as I think it makes the editor easier to use, and I would like to reflect the default colours in the screenshots in my tutorial documents when I update them to reflect the latest release.
Footleg
The default colors are indeed hardcoded in XTherion. They can be overridden by un-commenting and changing the respective lines in xtherion.ini. As for the xtherion.new.ini, I think it was a backup copy of the settings or something, and not really read by the application. I don't have the sources at hand at the moment to check. I can change the defaults for wall and rock to the ones you suggest and they will make it to the next release. I chose the defaults because they worked well for my setup, my screen, etc. For other people the experience will be different. For example I use TopoDroid and not PocketTopo, so I don't have a conflict with the background splays. Btw, Marco Corvi did some extra symbols for XTherion points, e.g. stalactites, stalagmites, etc. So they don't all look like blue dots. I didn't have a chance to test them and I think they didn't get copied to the base repository and to the release. I'll see if I can dig them up later... Vladimir <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Footleg via Therion <therion@speleo.sk> wrote:
Having finally got around to updating my install to 5.4.1 I was trying to work out how the line colours had appeared in the official builds (I'm on Windows). I see the ini file entries in both xtherion.ini and xtherion.new.ini, all commented out in both files. So I am assuming the colours are set by some hard coded defaults unless over ridden in the ini file?
Why are there two ini files? Are they both used by the application?
When this feature was first provided (via the email list) for testing, I commented that some of the default colours were not ideal from my experience. In particular the use of 'brown' for unselected walls in the active scrap is not so easy to tell from the red selected item. As users are already accustomed to the blue wall lines in the active scrap, I changed this one to blue.
Rock borders look the same colour as survey legs and splays in background sketches brought in from PocketTopo, so I changed these to purple. So the only two changes I have to add into my ini file are:
set xth(gui,me,wallcolor) blue set xth(gui,me,rockcolor) purple
The blue walls work well with the blue controlfill because the control points only appear on selected lines, where the line is turned red. So this is not confused with blue wall lines which are not selected.
I would like to propose these colours be made the defaults as I think it makes the editor easier to use, and I would like to reflect the default colours in the screenshots in my tutorial documents when I update them to reflect the latest release.
Footleg
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