[cap-talk] New horton animation up

[Bill Frantz]

I have no objections to the idea of moving back and forth, and a small
"back" button in perhaps the lower right corner of each image would make
that easier.  (Thanks Monte for saying that clicking on the image itself
moved to the next image.  I'm glad I read it before trying the
animation.)  A "forward" button would make it obvious how to move
forward too.

The other suggestion is to label things.  About the 7th frame, a magenta
"jewel" (square-in-a-square) appears.  It would help to label it with
some kind of descriptive name.  [Name it he says, ducking. :-)]

Cheers - Bill

monty at codetransform.com (Monty Zukowski) on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 wrote:

>You did realize you can click on the diagram to advance to the next
>one, right?  It wasn't spelled out on the page, so first I was paging
>back and forth...
>
>Instead of bold, another color would help, or style of line like
>dashed.  The frames where nothing was added were hard to follow.
>
>On 3/28/07, Mark S. Miller <markm at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> Karp, Alan H wrote:
>> > I know the protocol, and I still found the animation hard to follow.
>> > The biggest problem I had was noticing what had changed between
>> > consecutive frames.  I was continually going backward and forward trying
>> > to pick up what was new.
>>
>>
>> Yes, I agree. I added some visual cues to try to help with that -- notice the
>> transient bold outlines around just-created or active objects -- but it wasn't
>> enough. Suggestions welcome. But I'd like to keep the format of a small number
>> of significantly different frames, so that it also works as an illustrated web
>> page narrative.
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