Age Graphics

[autocart]

One more wish regarding the ageCircles:

Could we have an option to - instead of a color - define that there should not be a circle at all (and no white background).
I like to color code only the files of the last few days. Anything that is older should not be color coded at all. Would be nice to have the option of not having a circle or a circle which is 100% transparent (but also without white background).
That option would be even nicer than including the created date (which I understand that it would not make much sense for most users).

[murdock01]

So far I love this new feature. I would be cool to get something like it for the catalog (I love the catalog).
I have had lots of people positively comment about seeing the graphics instead of rows of numbers. Hope I can generate some sales.
I have already changed my theme. Basically goes list this. Bright red (brand new file) to Yellow (age <= a day), then greens to blue-greens for files that are older that a week but newer than a month, then blues for the month, multi-month interval, then dark blues to grey as you get to a year and older.

See the screenshot.

Also, here is my actual layout.

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future:ff0000,2n:ff0000,5n:f86707,10n:f79709,30n:f79709,1h:f4d80b,1d:f5ef0a,2d:aef30c,3d:68f20d,5d:1be457,1w:27d89e,1m:32cdc9,2m:3faac0,3m:4d92b3,6m:567ba9,1y:646f9b,2y:6c8293

[eil]

Could we have an option to - instead of a color - define that there should not be a circle at all (and no white background).

support this. while feature is useful i don't really want to see circles on totally all items, so having variant "no circle for files older than" would be good.

[admin]

Thanks for all the input, good stuff. I will reply in detail later. Here is just a quick heads up: I will totally revise the syntax of the AgeCircleClasses string to (a) make it much more powerful, and (b) make it work exactly like the "Color Filters by Age" syntax, so: Don't invest too much time in your definitions now...

[admin]

Here is a preview of the new factory defaults. As you see I changed the semantics to something more natural:

[highend]

That looks really good (and easy to grasp)!

[admin]

One more wish regarding the ageCircles:

Could we have an option to - instead of a color - define that there should not be a circle at all (and no white background).
I like to color code only the files of the last few days. Anything that is older should not be color coded at all. Would be nice to have the option of not having a circle or a circle which is 100% transparent (but also without white background).

Yes, good idea. Done!

[admin]

So far I love this new feature. I would be cool to get something like it for the catalog (I love the catalog).

In the Catalog? How that?

[admin]

Before you report it, this comes in next beta:

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    ! Age Circles: If an item matched no class then a black circle was drawn. 
      Now nothing is drawn.

[murdock01]

In the Catalog? How that?

Well I don't mean this exact function; I just would be exited to see some new catalog features also. What? well let me ponder for a bit. I know I have thought of things in the past but never got around to posting them.
But I never would have thought that some dots would have made my life a little bit easier, and more colorful, but here we are. I like these visual ques instead of column after column of text and numbers. Usually when I am doing things all I really need is the file name. I don't need to see the age and size and other attributes in most of my work. I do need it once in a while so I don't turn the columns off. With the visual dots I can turn off columns and have more space for file names, kind of a de-clutter.

I guess maybe a way to put some informational graphics into a catalog like maybe drive space graphs or maybe have something like the 'type and stats filter' "mounted" to a category in the catalog. Something that was active and responded to things in the active list.
Dont know .. just rambling ..

[eil]

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- After the color you can state "b2": this will draw an unfilled circles with borderwidth 2 pixels.

really like this! how about developing it further?
b1 = draw no border (or maybe "fill border with circle color")
b3 = b2+b1 = no border and unfilled circles
i understand that border is to stand out, but white is not always the best background/border, and since border color can't be changed it would be good to have way to disable it at least.

OR if you make border color customizable for each slot, that would be even better!

[admin]

I will first publish it in the current pure state. Then let's see what ideas come up. Let the features mature with time...

But, yes, there a lots of possible ways to customize this further in future: multiple colors, sizes, shapes...

[autocart]

the current implementation is nice for me, thx!

[JohnM]

I'm using the tweak to show age circle in the modified column, but the circle is now clobbering the date itself. This makes the date hard to read. See screenshot.

Cheers

[autocart]

I'm using the tweak to show age circle in the modified column, but the circle is now clobbering the date itself. This makes the date hard to read. See screenshot.

Cheers

if u right click on the column header and u have "show age" and/or "show weekday" activated, then this bug comes up.
I am sure that Don will fix it in the next release.