Paint dynamics specification

not a spec yet, just a lash-up to begin with…

first stab at the tool options

some notes

• al blue links (underline on mouseover) link to the corresponding pop-up entry in the dockable (below) that will be raised when a link is clicked;
• all input toggle-buttons are without border (only on mouse-over) and have their text color set to 75% fg + 25% bg;
• all input toggle-buttons track/mirror the on/off switches in the lists of the dockable;
• the full input label is shown by a tooltip, also for the brush dynamics input links.

the new dockable

some notes

• the pop-up list at the top has all the inputs and outputs listed in two sections. it addresses the questions: “what does this input control?” and “what control this output?”
• depending if at the top an input or an out put is chosen, all valid outputs or input are shown in the scrolling list at the bottom;
• the scrolling list has checkboxes on the left to switch on/off a input->output mapping;
• only curves for mappings that are on are shown
• the highlighted and on mapping is editable as a curve, its line color is fg (black here), all other curver are 50% fg/bg (grey here);
• the min/max triangles on the right of the curves track the min and max of the highlighted curve; dragging one of the triangles itself moves the min or max of the curve and scales the whole curve;
• the ‘Show input checkbox’ enables the tracking of the input (either the one selected in the pop-up or highlighted in the scrolling list) in a way similar as the color sampling is shown in the Curves dialog (vertical line at current value);