From kde-devel  Sun Jun 22 02:13:43 2003
From: Russell Miller <rmiller () duskglow ! com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 02:13:43 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Hex editor widget
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:37:34AM +0200, Friedrich W. H.  Kossebau wrote:

> Hey, here is a first job for you :) 
> How would you call the column with the ASCII view and how the one with the 
> representation as hexadecimal/decimal/octal/binary? The actual names may be 
> not that perfect (no, won't tell, I might bias you ;)
> 
"Long Thingy" and "Short Thingy" hehe
nah... ummm
Maybe just call them "Octal", "Hexadecimal", "Decimal", "Binary" - depending
on what the mode is, and on the other side, ASCII?

> good idea. Wait - isn't ASCII all the chars from 000d to 127d? I guess you 
> mean instead all printable (as in isprint() ), right?
> 
Yes.  I don't have a formal CS background so my names for things aren't
always precise.

> Should be doable. Huh - there will be a heck of configuration. And how 
> colorfull it might be in the end: bookmarks, selections, value range 
> markups... :)) 
> Should make use of font styles like bold and italic, too, might help some 
> people as well.
> 
I think color is generally a good thing.  As long as it's used properly, and
as long as it doesn't make the interface too cluttered, I think it makes the
program much more visually appealing.  There's a reason children like things
with a lot of color.

> Okay. Should go to bed now. But it was so pleasing to see other people looking 
> forward to some work of mine so I had pulled some more emails down when 
> coming home :)
> 
Yeah, I know that feeling.

--Russell

> Friedrich
> 
>  
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