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It looks like 1.98 is going to be a UI update. While working on the toolbar menus I had a few ideas for further refinements. There is now a “timeline fill” and “timeline text” color definitions in the Colors setup dialog. This allows setting e.g. a darker color nuance for the timeline area, which I think is nice. The screenshot below also shows the colors which I plan to use as the new default color scheme. A touch of blue instead of the old grey shade, and black text instead of white.

If your reason for not being interested is because it took Microsoft 3 years to get it right….I am bit puzzled about that. Would it be more of interest to you if they took 3 weeks to get it right or 3 days? Surely the time frame to find a soltuon has nothing to do with the use of the solution.

I am just trying to understand your comments here.

What I gather from the article, was that a major part of the development time was spent figuring out how to lay out the ribbon control, and what commands should be available in the ribbon. Implementing the basic functionality of a ribbon control in Podium is not a problem, but it is going to take a HUGE amount of time to figure out what the ribbon should contain. Your suggestions for the main tabs is the easy part. It’s almost certain that each Podium user would want something different in the ribbon, possibly more so than the typical MS word user. That’s why I originally designed the editor profile system, which allows the user to configure the entire workspace.

@Conquistador wrote:

A ribbon for Podium to eliminate drop down menus (or at least make them optional).

Thanks for the link. I did not know anything about the “ribbon” control. I don’t see myself applying this to Podium in the near future. If it took a bunch of MS engineers three years and three total rewrites before getting this right for MS word, I think I better stick to my current design! 😉

I also think that there are features in Podium that can accommodate for the different tasks and workflows that you go through in the creative process. I’m thinking about the project start page, and the possibility to create different editor profiles that you can quickly swap between with F8.

Thanks for the comments.

Can you provide a snapshot of what the button looks like when clicked?

The button is highlighted with the select color while the menu is open, just like the old menu buttons.

What’s the ‘local’ button for? I don’t think I’ve seen that before…

I’ve since renamed that to “File”. It contains menus for opening the properties dialog for the arrangement/sequence/sound, as well as file/export commands for the object shown in the editor. I tried with “Local” because the new “Project” menu contains file commands as well.