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Improve Highlighting of selected Transformer

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  • February 16, 2017
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It would be very helpful to improve the way selected transformers a.o. elements in workbench are highlighted.

In newer versions of FME it is very hard in Workbench to detect the highlighted transformer. Current behaviour would be better described as "low-lighting" instead of "high-lighting".

Even in a zoomed in state I have a hard time to see the "light-blue" coloring behind the blue transformer. In a larger zoomed out extent with a larger number of transformers it is next to impossible.

I remember old times like in FME 2012 when I could see any marked tranformer on first glance even among several hundred. The marking back then was prominent and user friendly. Now it is like a hide and seek game.

Some ideas an how to improve the situation:

  • use different color, e.g. red
  • make marking more prominent with corner squares like in older FME versions
  • ...

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david_r
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  • February 16, 2017

Absolutely agree.


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  • October 14, 2020

I completely agree. FME Workbench does look really good these days but that's from the lofty perch of someone who has reasonably good vision. I frequently am asked by other end users where the accessibility settings are in FME and unfortunately there just aren't that many. I know colour blind people the struggle to differentiate between the red and green attribute arrows on target feature types for example... Certainly a little work still required here to make FME Desktop a little more inclusive.


ecthelion
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  • October 14, 2020

One of the client team (Ordnance Survey) that I am working with raised this query and it is something I would like to see actioned and implemented. The current highlighting (especially on Workspaces with 100s of transformers is difficult to work with, especially for those without 20/20 vision or with other optical problems).

Some sort of flashing, bright colour (use the opposite color - color wheel - to the background?) would be useful.


ian_1spatial
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  • October 14, 2020

Fully agree here. Small accessibility changes will hopefully make all the difference.


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Hi all! Please note that we have made some tweaks to the highlighting of selected transformers, now in the 2021.0 beta. Please give this a whirl and let us know what you think—Any and all feedback welcomed :).

Cheers,

Annabelle


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