[instaviz-users] Transparent color (was: Localize this, please)

[Glen Low]

Rui:

On 24/11/2008, at 11:46 PM, Rui Carmo wrote:

> 4) The transparent color might best be conveyed by a light-grey  
> checkerboard pattern (a common UI convention in most drawing  
> applications)

I thought about this, since I already use the checkerboard pattern to  
fill in the empty spaces when scrolling etc. I have two issues here:

-- it's not really a transparent color as it is "use the default  
color". For example, if you have the X color and choose filled from  
the styles, the system chooses a light gray (as per Graphviz defaults).
-- I'm myself am used to seeing the checkerboard as transparent, being  
a former designer and Photoshop/Illustrator user myself, but I wonder  
whether a layman would see it as a real pattern instead i.e. I chose  
this checkerboard pattern, why isn't the graph displaying it? At least  
the cross looks more obviously like it's not a color.

Opinions people?





Cheers, Glen Low


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