Re: [bug-gtypist] GTypist for Beginners

[Tim Marston]

Hi Felix,

On 17/12/11 16:34, Felix Natter wrote:
> Then I will take care of writing the component for the "beginner
> tutorial" which allows to scroll vertically.

Great. That sounds fantastic.

> Ok, so we have a Scrollbar (only usable via keyboard of course) and
> "Start typing" (space/enter) and "Don't show this message again (ESC)"
> (Escape) buttons.

Does ncurses offer anything like a "checkbox" widget? If it does,
perhaps you could use one of them to say "don't show me this again".

> I think another thing that would be nice is to add more colors to
> the UI (maybe optional). For instance, we could use green+red in
> drills/speedtests. What do you think?
>
> Finally, you could output smileys if a new personal best score is
> achieved and so on.

Hmm, I don't know about adding more colours (I'm worried it would start
looking garish!), but I like this idea if a smiley face in the new
personal best message! Now we're using UTF-8, this should be fairly easy
to do.

Actually, I've always wanted to re-write the code that draws the
end-of-lesson "stats box" because it doesn't correctly format line
widths. For example, if you get >= 10% error rate, the line that shows
you your error rate is too long! So, I'll also put my name down for
rewriting the stats box code and I'll add a smiley face to the new
personal best message while I'm there.

All the best.

-- 
Tim Marston
ed.am