[XaraXtreme-dev] Live dragging indicator

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can someone explain to me what is meant to be the UI for the live dragging
indicator?

As far as I can tell (playing with Xtreme) it does not switch on or off
when the system drops from live dragging to outline dragging (try dragging
the cars around on "Probe X16.xar") - is it meant to? So it's only purpose
seems to be that you can double-click it to turn live dragging on or off.

If that is the case, why on earth does it require a double-click, and why
isn't it a straightforward bitmap button, with a toggling effect? This
would have the advantages of the user knowing they can click it to do
something (it will look like any other button), and when it's switch off,
it will be readable (as opposed to a bizarre grey squiggle).

Given that doing a straightforward bitmap button is rather a lot less work,
I propose doing it that way, then (if we ever want to show live drag
is dynamically off due CPU load) then during the drag we grey it, and
ungrey it at the end. Any objections?

Alex