GUI interface idea…circles instead of menus.

[Dorothyfan1]

Right now ASP has this menu stuck on the top which takes up a lot of interface space away from the canvas. You have to click the bar to get to items like File, Edit, etc. That’s too boring and not very real estate efficient. Procreate is a lot more creative in this regard. Instead of menus plopped on the top everything gets housed in small icons which saves a lot of space for the canvas space. ASP needs to do something similar. My idea is borrowed from Concepts which has a unique way showing the color bar. If you open the color bar…it shows a wheel that’s scrollable. In that wheel there’s a listing of menu items that shows everything you need right on the circle…including the color wheel. ASP could do the same thing…condense everything into two floating detachable circles that you can place anywhere on the screen. One circle has all the interface items you currently have on the boring strip on the top. And it’s in a circle that’s floatable. You click the circle and out opens the menu items. The other circle has the color wheel with all the RGB colors and color swatches. Hey Lucky Clan I think Borodante would find this idea pretty cool. So anybody wanna jump right into this thread and comment?

[Andreas Raninger]

It's a good idea. I don't mind the menu myself and it can be hidden if in the way. In the future I think that ASP will be more dynamic to suit different ways of workflow by adjusting settings, but Rome wasn't buildt in one day (and by only three developers ). I can only say that my only problem now is the macos version that Deluxe Paint on the Amiga beats in dynamic user interface. But if you have a M1 mac you can run the iPad version on it. To get an iPad pro M1 for free, if you own a M1 mac, you just use sidecar or Astropad. The later is more useful allowing gestures rather than a keyboard. Astropad is more user friendly when it comes to support and ideas and Apple is, as you all know by now, like hitting a brick wall.

[lastaccess]

Don’t like the idea with these floatable circles. I like strict menu design of ASP. It has space to improve , but not this fancy way, imho.