Happiness column switch to drawing coded colors instead of icons about dwarftherapist

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Original comment by [email protected] on 20 Jul 2009 at 3:04

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Original comment by [email protected] on 20 Jul 2009 at 4:09

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Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jul 2009 at 12:16

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This was done a few commits ago as part of the new column ini formats. Changing 
this 
ticket to find better icons.

You can't actually tell much difference between the happiness icons presently. 
They 
should probably not all be yellow faces 

Original comment by [email protected] on 31 Jul 2009 at 5:52

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http://icojoy.com/lj/free/smiles/form.php

maybe use the link to make some new ones?

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Original comment by [email protected] on 11 Aug 2009 at 12:42

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booting this...

Original comment by [email protected] on 20 Aug 2009 at 2:32

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Should change smiley colors...possibly shades of:
Green (Happier)
Yellow (In-between)
Blue (Becoming Unhappy)
Red (Going to rampage)

Not sure exactly how many states there are, however you can adjust shades to be
darker to indicate more extreme happiness/unhappiness (or use more colours). 
This
would definitely make it easier to recognize the mood dwarves are in.

Original comment by [email protected] on 15 Sep 2009 at 2:39

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+1 to JeffMeta's comment, my thoughts exactly (even close on colors.)

I'd go with a more traditional spectrum, something like red to blue, red being
"danger" and blue being "no worries" in this case.  Altho' "blue" can mean 
unhappy,
putting blue between red (danger) and yellow ("sunny"?) is a bit of a 
braintwist.

There are 7 levels of happiness...

  ecstatic
  happy
  quite content
  fine
  unhappy
  very unhappy
  miserable 

plus (if possible to include) tantruming, plus insanity.  I'd suggest...

  ecstatic: bright blue
  happy: teal/blue-green
  quite content: green
  fine: yellow/green
  unhappy: yellow
  very unhappy: orange
  miserable : red (= danger)

  tantruming: red w/ fat exclamation mark.
  insanity: black (if possible)

I tried this with a grid view (spectrum varied left to right).  If done with an 
eye
to even "density" (avoiding pastels vs solids, or vice versa - esp w/ the teal 
and
yellow-green), the "cool" colors are good, the warmer ones (yellow/green = 
mid/fine,
yellow = unhappy) start to jump out, orange even more, and red just looks 
dangerous
(as it should). 

Adding smileys/frownies w/in those is gravy.  (Maybe lose the face as a whole, 
and
just put the shape of the mouth, the "smile/frown"?)

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Original comment by [email protected] on 23 Sep 2009 at 7:03

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Afterthought - especially with customizable cell size, any graphic is subject to
distortion.  A color is a color no matter what size.
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Original comment by [email protected] on 23 Sep 2009 at 7:04

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Yea a color might be easier to tell anyways as well as the raw happiness level 
as a 
number or something. The variable cell size is important, but not that big of a 
deal 
if like 3 pixels are stretched.

So I will work on that. Looks like it might be time to break up the options 
menu into 
different panes. It's getting crowded in there. But this would require 7 more 
custom 
color selectors so I'd like to move them around.

Original comment by [email protected] on 23 Sep 2009 at 7:20

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Original comment by [email protected] on 24 Sep 2009 at 6:35

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This issue was closed by revision r249.

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Sep 2009 at 12:24

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