Update on the box menu

[Susannah Luminos]

i love love love everything about the new updates except for one thing and that one thing is making me a little bonkers.

when you click on a box now, the very first thing on the left hand side is unpack, and it used to be the info button. for ages it was the info button. i keep clicking unpack when i want to just check info.

fortunately i've noticed in time and can stop unpack, but this is annoying to me.

other than that, YAY for all the features!

great work kittycats!



susannah

[Sanura Snowpaw]

I have noticed the menu has moved around a bit also, so far I have been able to catch myself in time but not always. Mostly what I've been doing is going to unpack and switching them from images back to boxes.

[Susannah Luminos]

(07-17-2012 09:36 PM)Sanura Snowpaw Wrote:  I have noticed the menu has moved around a bit also, so far I have been able to catch myself in time but not always. Mostly what I've been doing is going to unpack and switching them from images back to boxes.

it;s sort of reminding me of when i tried firestorm and kept trying to get to my inventory from the bottom right of my screen.

i'm just glad i can stop unpack now.

on a different subject, last night i was wandering around too adorable and was getting confused about which were live cats turned into images and which were box images. lol

my head almost exploded, so i left

[Tad Carlucci]

On the popup dialog buttons being re-arranged .. yeah, it's a pain when things get moved around. Sometimes there's no choice. But when it just happens for no good reason it can be a tad upsetting to customers.

On the picture boxes and 2D cats ... there is too little visual difference between live and box, and the random-sizes of the boxes is annoying. Personally, I dislike the difference in size between the male and female boxes in photo mode, but it's the only way to tell, at a glance, which is which. It's too late now, but a color change would have been better so we'll have to live with that. What I don't get, though, is why the boxes are not all the same size for a given gender.

[Liriel Garnet]

(07-18-2012 07:45 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  On the popup dialog buttons being re-arranged .. yeah, it's a pain when things get moved around. Sometimes there's no choice. But when it just happens for no good reason it can be a tad upsetting to customers.

On the picture boxes and 2D cats ... there is too little visual difference between live and box, and the random-sizes of the boxes is annoying. Personally, I dislike the difference in size between the male and female boxes in photo mode, but it's the only way to tell, at a glance, which is which. It's too late now, but a color change would have been better so we'll have to live with that. What I don't get, though, is why the boxes are not all the same size for a given gender.

We noticed the same and wondered if it had to do with the full-grown size of the cats. As for telling them apart at a glance, the girls have pink outlines and writing on the 2D boxes, the boys have blue.

[Kayleigh McMillan]

It is hard to admit this after all the hard work KC has done but indeed it is a bit confusing ...

[Callie Cline]

the "image" mode for live cats is a soft grey background with a pink or blue trim for gender for the visual aspect. (hover text can still be used)

the "image" mode for unborn kittens has the box texture like the normal unopened box, cardboard, also a pink or blue border, a pink or blue cat face and the gender symbol. (hover text can still be used) so if you see "grey" it's alive, if you see a box background it's still unborn

the 2d cat mode is a mode with no background. (hover text can still be used)

remember all can still be "clicked" and people can find out more as well.

the art for the the "image" mode for live cats was purposely created to be something neutral and subtle, taking into consideration the diverse community, their decor styles, and create something that hopefully would aesthetically fit into most catteries or homes or markets. this is the reason the girls aren't on a bright pink back ground or boys on a blue or all the other things i tried that looked unappealing

hopefully it's the newness of it all that is a little confusing and after that passes it will be old hat for you all

[Susannah Luminos]

(07-18-2012 11:52 AM)Callie Cline Wrote:  the "image" mode for live cats is a soft grey background with a pink or blue trim for gender for the visual aspect. (hover text can still be used)

the "image" mode for unborn kittens has the box texture like the normal unopened box, cardboard, also a pink or blue border, a pink or blue cat face and the gender symbol. (hover text can still be used) so if you see "grey" it's alive, if you see a box background it's still unborn

the 2d cat mode is a mode with no background. (hover text can still be used)

remember all can still be "clicked" and people can find out more as well.

the art for the the "image" mode for live cats was purposely created to be something neutral and subtle, taking into consideration the diverse community, their decor styles, and create something that hopefully would aesthetically fit into most catteries or homes or markets. this is the reason the girls aren't on a bright pink back ground or boys on a blue or all the other things i tried that looked unappealing

hopefully it's the newness of it all that is a little confusing and after that passes it will be old hat for you all

i know i will eventually get used to the images. they are obviously not the same, for live cats and boxes, it was mostly confusing to me when i went into one shop in particular and they were all sort of smooshed up.

my original thread had to do with the menu when clicking on a box. did unpack have to go where the info button has been since i started breeding over a year ago? the GUI to me now isn;t as user friendly as it once was..

i have loads of old hats. let's have a hat party!

sus

[Saga Felix]

I must admit I just wish boxes were smaller, even in image mode. They now take up a LOT of wall-space compared to the shelf-space they used to occupy.
I find myself making them into an imagine, naming then with whatever gender they have, and then changing them back to box. -A bit tedious, but so far it works.

-And yes I know about the cattery But some boxes, I like to keep in world.