[WIP] SharpRainbow

[Bru]

SharpRainbow
Small program for creating colored text in Warcraft 3.

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Description

Features

Description
SharpRainbow - small program for creating colored
text in Warcraft 3. Yes, again. What is the difference
between SharpRainbow and other programs? User-friendly
GUI, photoshop-like cool palette, transliteration same cyrillic
and latin letters, and more.

Features

• User-friendly GUI
• Photoshop-like color picker
• Transliteration same cyrillic and latin characters
• Making commas working in descriptions
• User colors palette
• Russian and English language

Screenshots

 

[GhostWolf]

Please attach the screenshots to this thread directly, without using terrible 3rd party sites like imageshack.

 

[Bru]

Done.

 

[GhostWolf]

Went over it quite fast, didn't look at the code.

• What's the point of "Replace commas"? didn't notice any changes.
• If you open the palette and "Save color" without choosing a slot, it throws an exception because the slot object isn't set.
• You can open the palette window multiple times. The changes seem to only be saved for the last one you close. I suggest to either only allow one window (and if the user tries to open it again, simply give it focus), or to embed it in the main window (which in my opinion is more intuitive).
• The text seems to be mixed between the Russian and English resources.
• I believe it would be more natural to have the color picker open when you click on the selected color, instead of (or in addition to) having a special button for it.

 

[Bru]

• I don't know very well, but one of the users of my program said, that in some descriptions of spells comma will remove all of the text after this comma, so we need to replace it by same symbol.
• I know, this bug already added to tickets.
• Thanks, i will fix it.
• I don't quite understand what do you mean.
• Okay!

 

[Bru]

1.3 Released!
Changelog:

• Now you can open only 1 palette window and when you click at the button again, form just appears on top.
• Now you can open color picker by clicking on colored square on main form.
• Renamed some of the controls.
• Now you can't maximize forms.
• Fixed error with transliterating. (That causes Out Of Range error)
• Changed the way of localization - from default .NET (that requires more files then only main exe) to new, program-inside.
• Program now a bit smaller (152 KB > 87 KB)

Now on tickets available new milestone - 1.4. Your ideas and reports are welcome!

 

[Bru]

New screenshots!

 

[Luorax]

I don't know very well, but one of the users of my program said, that in some descriptions of spells comma will remove all of the text after this comma, so we need to replace it by same symbol.

Buff/Debuff tooltips tend to do that, yes, that's why you see semicolons used in them, instead of commas.

 

[Bru]

Thanks. Now its appeared in User Manual. Please, report me about misspellings, i don't know english very well.

 

[Bru]

Does anyone know what other oddities have descriptions in Warcraft? I'll be so glad to see your feedback.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Well, I know that there are hardcoded limits for tooltip lengths. You might want to investigate on that. And I know that for strings in wc3, certain characters take up more bytes than others, e.g.:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/lab-715/documentation-string-type-240473/#B
I don't know if this applies to tooltips or not. Does it? I haven't ever tested it. It might be something to look into!

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Well, I know that there are hardcoded limits for tooltip lengths.

The major problem with the tooltip length is, that the color codes (like |cffffffff|r) take up character space in the same way as any other character. That means that if you use a lot of color coding, the tooltips have to be considerably shorter.