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- From: smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon)
- Subject: Re: Imagemaster - what is it ??
- Message-ID: <12AUG199214512544@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <James_Hastings-Trew.0i8o@telepro.UUCP>
- Date: 12 Aug 1992 14:51 EST
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- In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0i8o@telepro.UUCP>, James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes...
- >In a message dated Tue 11 Aug 92 12:47, Katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (chris'N'
- >wrote:
- >
- > KN> I have helped a friend with the program produce a "morph"
- > KN> sequence.
- > KN> Even though it is the only function I have used, I have had to write
- > KN> a
- > KN> "road map" in order to find this function again. Once you are there,
- > KN> the morphing part of the program works well and has a good, logical
- > KN> inter-
- > KN> face. But getting there is _none_ of the fun.
- >
- >Hmm...
- >Load a primary and secondary image. The compose button becomes active. Pick
- >Special Compositions (morphing is pretty special). Pick the Morph button.
- >
- >Whew. Boy. Yep, nothing logical about THAT. My God man, how did you find
- >your way back out alive?
- >
- Unfortunately, Morph is a lot easier to find that other functions. Example:
- say I want to asterist a pic. I see that 'Paint func.' and 'Process func'
- are up. So I would click on Paint. *BUZZ* its under process! Why?
- I would consider that `painting' on to the picture instead of
- processing the picture (IMHO).
-
- There are other function like that, where they may seem to be inappropiately
- placed on the button structure. If I were the developers for IM, I
- would have used menus, allowing the user to browse his choices before
- continuing (offer a continue/cancle requestor for each function to
- avoid missed menu selections.
-
- Another problem with the buttons is that it takes noticable time to pop up
- the next screenful of buttons. Once a function has been selected, I would
- expect some time to create the custom structure, but I really dont
- want to wait around as the next level of buttons are created. Very slow
- in this case on a 500.
-
- Michael Neylon aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermodynamics GOD!
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