Matt Legend Gemmell Modesty is Lying

Dude, nice work.

Although wouldn’t it be nicer to have the name of the element appear somewhere static so that you don’t get the overspill on the names (especially at the edges when the aligning doesn’t quite look right)? Perhaps at the top right of the panel, right aligned?

That looks great, however, there seems to be a problem when resizing starting at a lower page. If the window is increased in size to hold all of the items and then decreased in size to hold a smaller number, the first page automatically appears instead of the last page that was being viewed(in this case the bottom page). I understand this case may not seem all that important, but, if a user increases the size a little too much and then decreases the size to compensate the behavior, to me, would seem incorrect.

Think we could have some source code?

Hey Matt,

I previously had the names appearing at the bottom left (i.e. left-aligned in the area they appear in now), and if the window was really wide it got quite hard to move the mouse over an item and then glance way over to the left to see what it was called. I’m just experimenting with moving the rollover text right now.

I was leaning towards the thinking that the panel you’d be displaying would be small (around 7 items as you’ve shown) with the ability to jump forward/back between any other entries. This’d mean you don’t have the direction between the name and icon so high.

It would then also follow the 7 +/- 2 items rule for presenting menu/list items, which may be a nice feature to hold. I’d assume you’d be able in your implementation (or it would at least be trivial to change) to limit the number of items displayed on one “line” of the panel, and thus you could create a panel with a maximum of say 7 items and the text would always remain within “glancing” distance.

Of course you could always create two versions which could be used for short (i.e. 7 items) with the name in the corner and a long version (i.e. >9-10 items) which would display the names as you currently have them.

Erm… direction should really read distance in that last comment I made.

I know you’ll probably update the original and delete this comment. Still, the panel is pretty cool, well done.

Keep it SHEERCORE!
(And on that note, when is the domain becoming active? And when is the next comic coming online? And I think we need to start thinking of names for our pub quiz team, I suggest: “Compsoc vs. SHEERCORE: the gut wrenching, comprehensive parody of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (Vvvvuuummm!”)

That’s pretty slick! I will mention that it looks odd to go to the second pane and make it wider, because the wider you make it the fewer items are shown ;) But it makes sense.