Appearance of flipped pictures in ToonTalk

Dear ToonTalkers,

I have received many requests for a way to make it clear what is on the
other side of a flipped picture. Various suggestions have been made
about making the background of the flipped picture semi transparent or
to add a miniature version of the image on the back. These suggestions
are good but have their problems. The semi transparent image can easily
be covered up if there are lots of things on the back of the picture.
The miniature can be confused for a picture that is on the back.

Jakob, Ylva, and I came up with a nice alternative. The miniature
picture is at the corner and protrudes from the back of the flipped
picture. A mock up of what the ball in the Pong game would like when
flipped can be found at

http://www.toontalk.com/flipped_ball.gif

The protruding image is also a nice handle for grabbing the picture and
not a sub-picture.

And then while we are at it why not use this space for a label for the
picture. Robots, birds, nests, boxes, and notebooks have labels why not
pictures, text pads, and numbers? (I can't see a reason to give bombs,
scales, or trucks labels.) And then the idea came up that if you use the
new dialog to save a ToonTalk object that the file should get its name
from the label of the object being saved.

Comments?

Best,

-ken



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