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To celebrate the 1000th reply to this thread, here's a suggestion:

Currently I'm not satisfied with how themes are currently selected. A slider doesn't really seem to make sense anymore, especially since the numbering scheme for themes was removed, so I think theme selection should instead use a menu. This would free up some room on the main settings menu, and you'd be able to see which themes are available at a glance, which is a win in my book.

Here's a professionally-crafted mock-up of what such a theme selection menu could look like: https://media.discordapp.net/attachment ... estion.png


I also think that selecting themes via numbers in scripting should be deprecated, since the numbers don't really hold any relevance anymore.

muzik wrote:Here's a professionally-crafted mock-up of what such a theme selection menu could look like: https://media.discordapp.net/attachment ... estion.png

I'm certain I don't have the artistic skills to do that justice

It's what I do, I could probably have done considerably better with it honestly.

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Could a button be added that instantly kills all history cells within the active pattern?

Also, will LifeViewer's cutting copying pasting abilities ever be able to accept patterns which are currently in the clipboard, as well as write patterns to it that can then be posted as text/into golly?

muzik wrote:Could a button be added that instantly kills all history cells within the active pattern?

Yes

muzik wrote:Also, will LifeViewer's cutting copying pasting abilities ever be able to accept patterns which are currently in the clipboard...

Maybe but it's tricky because of browser security.

muzik wrote:... as well as write patterns to it that can then be posted as text/into golly?

It can already do this. Click on the Sync toggle button at the top and all copies from LifeViewer will go into the system clipboard.

On this page, if the settings menu is open, the left and right buttons occlude sliders: http://lazyslug.com/lifeview/plugin/0E0P.html

Also, to me, hexagonal cells don't look completely regular, and still seem a bit stretched vertically.

There's also this annoying quirk which I think I might have reported before, where a modified popupwidth displaces subsequently opened lifeviewer windows to the left, instead of correctly aligning them to the right (I haven't tested this on PC, though, either):

Also, shouldn't killgliders be greyed out for rules with more than two states (excluding lifehistory) and non-moore rules?

muzik wrote:Could a button be added that instantly kills all history cells within the active pattern?

On reflection it might be better to just not display history states when editing or selecting. Thoughts?

rowett wrote:

muzik wrote:Could a button be added that instantly kills all history cells within the active pattern?

On reflection it might be better to just not display history states when editing or selecting. Thoughts?

I definitely wouldn't vote for that. Placing patterns by aligning their LifeHistory envelopes is a big part of my usual editing workflow.

Conversely, a keyboard shortcut that kills LifeHistory cells inside a selection is, for me, one of the biggest things that's still missing from Golly's editing system. I should have added some kind of ToChangeColors.lua script a long time ago, but haven't quite figured out what exactly I want to add.

There might be a few aliases currently on Catagolue but aren't on LifeViewer yet, so it might be worth checking if there are any more: https://catagolue.appspot.com/census/r5b31t42s34t53

It looks like there's been a lot of aliases invented over the past year, so I may just have a bunch of work ahead of me to document them all.

dvgrn wrote:

rowett wrote:On reflection it might be better to just not display history states when editing or selecting. Thoughts?

I definitely wouldn't vote for that. Placing patterns by aligning their LifeHistory envelopes is a big part of my usual editing workflow.

I meant the LifeViewer history cells not LifeHistory.

dvgrn wrote:Conversely, a keyboard shortcut that kills LifeHistory cells inside a selection is, for me, one of the biggest things that's still missing from Golly's editing system. I should have added some kind of ToChangeColors.lua script a long time ago, but haven't quite figured out what exactly I want to add.

Good idea I’ll add the ability to change all cells of a particular state.

Feature request: Only display on steps that are a multiple of x (useful for strobing rules)

fluffykitty wrote:Feature request: Only display on steps that are a multiple of x (useful for strobing rules)

Is setting the STEP size to a higher value not good enough?

Build 379 is now live on the Forums and LifeWiki

Please note: you will need to refresh your browser to use the new build (Ctrl-F5 on Chrome)

Enhancements since the last released build:

• replaced Theme slider with a Theme button that opens a page of buttons to select the required theme
• hotkeys Alt+"0" to Alt+"9" select drawing states when in Draw mode
• hotkey "Del" clears all cells of the current drawing state when in Draw mode
• hotkey Shift+"Del" clears [R]History cells

Fixes since the last released build:

• hide POI Previous/Next buttons when Settings menu is displayed
• grey out Kill button unless rule is 2-state Moore
• ensure PopUp Viewer is right aligned

The updated hotkey map detailing the LifeViewer keyboard controls is here.

Comments, feedback, suggestions and bug reports welcome!

rowett wrote:

fluffykitty wrote:Feature request: Only display on steps that are a multiple of x (useful for strobing rules)

Is setting the STEP size to a higher value not good enough?

When lag starts to occur, the STEP size is bypassed. Perhaps there can be a toggle to make it bypass the steps per second instead.

Loving the new update!

Is there a "clear everything outside this selection" button? I'd like to see one of these if not.

Also, can the kill all history cells hotkey have a button that does that inside the viewer for devices without keyboards?

Will the fading effect when switching themes ever come back?

Gamedziner wrote:When lag starts to occur, the STEP size is bypassed. Perhaps there can be a toggle to make it bypass the steps per second instead.

I could add a toggle to disable the STEP bypass. It would mean that LifeViewer could get not very responsive for large patterns at high STEP sizes.

muzik wrote:Is there a "clear everything outside this selection" button? I'd like to see one of these if not.

It's on the backlog.

muzik wrote:Also, can the kill all history cells hotkey have a button that does that inside the viewer for devices without keyboards?

I'll probably put one in Select mode.

muzk wrote:Will the fading effect when switching themes ever come back?

It's still there if you switch Themes with the keyboard or indeed if a Waypoint or POI changes Theme. Not getting instant feedback when clicking on a new Theme button felt wrong when I tested it.

Is it just me, or are COLOR OFF, COLOR ON and COLOR HISTORY all redundant? Changing them with scripts doesn't seem to do anything.

Also, with hex patterns, history seems pretty bugged:

Also try drawing with the lifehistory exclusive cell types, it's similarly buggy.

Zooming out shows the real cells.

Here's a more accurate colour scheme for MCell Theme Generations. It's still not perfect since it's supposed to cut off and loop every 32 generations but this is what we can do so far.

EDIT: There also doesn't seem to be any info on DYING or DYINGRAMP in the help section for colours.

muzik wrote:There also doesn't seem to be any info on DYING or DYINGRAMP in the help section for colours.

The info is in "Help"->"Themes"->"Multi".

rowett wrote:

muzik wrote:There also doesn't seem to be any info on DYING or DYINGRAMP in the help section for colours.

The info is in "Help"->"Themes"->"Multi".

Shouldn't it also be in the scripting section, though? It seems to be absent from there.

Build 380 is now live on the Forums and LifeWiki

Please note: you will need to refresh your browser to use the new build (Ctrl-F5 on Chrome)

Enhancements since the last released build:

• hotkey Alt+"T" to toggle playback throttling
• updated MCell multi-state Theme

Fixes since the last released build:

• [R]History COLOR commands were being ignored
• hexagons and triangles were ignoring [R]History colours

The updated hotkey map detailing the LifeViewer keyboard controls is here.

Comments, feedback, suggestions and bug reports welcome!

muzik wrote:

rowett wrote:

muzik wrote:There also doesn't seem to be any info on DYING or DYINGRAMP in the help section for colours.

The info is in "Help"->"Themes"->"Multi".

Shouldn't it also be in the scripting section, though? It seems to be absent from there.

It's there now - well spotted!

Bit of a stupid nitpick here, but killgliders should probably not be greyed out here:
Also can the aliases be updated? There's some on the catagolue lit that aren't in lifeviewer yet.

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