Hello
I often ask people I know to try out pano tours to see what usability issues might exist.
A recent participant said everything was easy and intuitive BUT....
"6. The only thing I didn't like was the "out of focus" at the start. I
think
it would be better if it didn't move until it was in focus
properly."
and then when questioned further on the matter.,..
"Maybe if the image didn't move until it were in focus? That
wouldn't be so
distracting. At first I thought there was something wrong
with it."
I have italicised the last sentence because this is the one I fear might cause the person to abort the attempt to view the panorama, my tracking system on my campsite
panorama tour suggests a small percentage of aborts and it is hard to tell why people exit within the first ten or fifteen seconds but obviously it is a concern if the reason
is that they think something is wrong during the loading stage.
This made me think it might be nice to have two predefined plugins...
< barmessage .... >
< loopingsmessage .... >
These plugins might be designed so as to automatically appear when the loopings or loading bar were displayed and automatically disapear
when loopings or loading bar disapeared.
The user could then define messages, perhaps as graphics perhaps as text along the lines of
"please wait the panorama is loading..."
It might be nice to have a positioning option that is relative to the loopings or loading bar position.
I thought even if usability issues dont exist this might be a nice touch and enhancement, perhaps it could be coded without an enhancement
but it would be nice for krpano to handle the decision when to display and when not to?
Jon