Thx a lot for all your good work Paul!

I can't figure out how to download the SVG file's.
SCAD automatically starts downloading but the SVG files are 'only'
representing.
How to download them as well?

Thx in advantage!
Harry

Torsten Paul via Discuss schreef op 2023-12-17 16:30:

On Sun, 2023-12-17 at 09:18 +0100, Harm Jeurink via Discuss wrote:

There were OpenSCAD Advent calendars from 2020 to 2023.
Google 'openscad advent' (without the quotes) to find them all.

On 17.12.23 18:26, Harm Jeurink via Discuss wrote:

I don't know if that's the same with all browsers, I'm using Firefox,
there it just shows the SVG after clicking on it (that's what happens
for you, if I understand correctly?) then I can just press CTRL-S or
use the File->Save as menu.

ciao,
Torsten.

On 17.12.23 18:22, jon via Discuss wrote:

It's not trying to. As said before, I'm open for suggestions.
I tried adding an outline so the icons are always visible
regardless of the image colors, but I failed to do that.

I'm only asking for silence if it's those kinds of comments
that are not helping or even going to ruin motivation of
people continuing to share their creations for free for
others to enjoy. Wording matters a lot in that regard.

ciao,
Torsten.

One last thought.

Clearly, my first reaction was too emotional.  After pondering a bit, I
came up with a better understanding of why I dislike the UI (other than
the fact that it was so obscure that I could not understand it at all
upon first encountering it).

I am presented with a grid of pretty doors.  My thought is "what is
behind each door?", so I click on a door.  The door opens! Wonderful!  I
then see what is "inside".  I am even more interested, so I click on the
object, to further explore it. Rather than taking me closer to the
object, the object becomes hidden, the exact opposite of what I wanted
to do.  If I had wanted to hide the object, I would have clicked ANY
WHERE ELSE on the screen.  Clicking on the object clearly should mean "I
am interested in the object".

A better UI would be 1) click on a door opens the door, 2) click on an
open door opens the object, 3) click anywhere other than an open door
closes all doors.  Simple and clear and obvious.

I will not write again about this unless asked to.

Jon

On 12/17/2023 12:22 PM, jon via Discuss wrote:

Torsten:

I completely agree.  What I said and how I said it was ... "horrible". 
My response was rude and not helpful.

I hope that my previous response is easier to understand and more
constructive.

Jon

On 12/17/2023 12:50 PM, Torsten Paul via Discuss wrote:

THX Paul,

Thats the solution of course, sorry for that.

Harry

Torsten Paul via Discuss schreef op 2023-12-17 18:34:

On 17.12.23 18:57, jon via Discuss wrote:

I disagree with 3, that seems strange and surprising and
very annoying if you wanted to click through many of the
doors and one mis-click just closes everything and you
have to start over from the beginning.

Well, it's probably too late for this year, but with some
luck and hopefully enough people ready to share a total
of 24 designs we will have another calendar next year.

If nobody can help with getting improvements in, the UI
will likely be the same again.

For completeness, the web part can be found on github at
https://github.com/openscad/openscad.github.com/tree/master/advent-calendar-2023
where it's pretty much just the index.html having all
the relevant stuff. So if anyone has a quick win, we can
push that out any time.

ciao,
Torsten.

Ah.  You have an implicit requirement that more than one door can be
open at once.

Jon

On 12/17/2023 2:00 PM, Torsten Paul via Discuss wrote:

That is how any other advent calendar works. I would simply remove the
close option.

On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, 20:39 jon via Discuss, discuss@lists.openscad.org
wrote: