"Reset to Default Standard Colours"

[Thelonius]

This morning I was experimenting with Tools | Options | Standard Colours.

Turns out any changes are immediately persistent.

There is no "UNDO" or "RESET TO DEFAULT COLOURS" button.

Can this please be considered for next release?

[RoyC]

Each field on the screen does actually have a default color that is hard-coded in the system. When you click on the down arrow in each field, the default color is selectable at the top of the pallet. If you don't like the color you have chosen for a particular item, click on the Default field to reset the color.

Nevertheless, the Help does not point this out, so I have updated the page for this topic.

[Thelonius]

Thanks, Roy.

While this fixes the immediate problem, it points out perhaps another issue that Sparx may want to consider. With respect.

People such as myself -- and I'm sure I'm not an isolated instance -- have become accustomed over the years to "common" user interface consistencies. Having used a range of different applications over the years.

When I experienced the situation I reported, I immediately thought "Oops, I've stuffed up. Now -- all the other applications I've used over the last 10 years implement something like a single "Reset to Default Colours" button. Where is it?"

I guess my point is: Sparx developers are probably very much aware that certain aspects of the EA user interface adopt inventive, often very clever, but non-standard designs. Printing is another area where the EA user interface is unexpectedly innovative in ways that are not necessarily appreciated by ordinary folk such as moi.

Happy to provide more substantiation for these views. Love your work. Do you remember coming down to Melbourne to talk to us at the TAC about four years ago?

Cheers.

Jon McLeod

[Thelonius]

Just for the record -- I've reconsidered my earlier comments.

The currently implemented UI method for allowing resetting to 'default' colors and settings on diagrams is fine. Probably better, actually, than how similar functionality is commonly implemented in other applications.

One becomes accustomed to how things are commonly done in other applications and looks immediately for a similar approach. If I'd looked closer, I would have seen the word 'DEFAULT' staring straight at me.

+1 for EA. -1 for me. Apologies.

[KP]

No apology necessary, as far as I'm concerned. There are 11 colour pickers on that dialog, and a single command to reset them all would be better than having to reset them individually.

[RoyC]

Or both. It is tedious to have to reset 11 colours separately, but equally tedious to reset them all in one click and then have to re-reset the ones you didn't get wrong.