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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:38 am    Post subject: (Other) Colors for Gixen WEB and the DTM Reply with quote

Hello,

what do you think of this color scheme for Gixen DTM?


For active offers:

White - if I hadn't set any bid yet
Green - if I had set a bid and there is no other bidder
Yellow - there is/are other bidder(s), I had set a bid
which is higher than the current price
(But with still the risk that my max bid is not sufficient)
Red - my max bid is too low


Old auctions:

White - ended and I had not set any bid
Green - won the auction
Red - lost the autction



Thus I think, with a quick glance
you can see the status for your biddings
and if necessary act.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Red is already used for editing, and yellow for max bid under current price. I am open, however, to adding more colors that don't change the existing meaning of these two colors.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mario wrote:
Red is already used for editing, and yellow for max bid under current price. I am open, however, to adding more colors that don't change the existing meaning of these two colors.



Well, I can understand that changing the meaning of existing colors is not desired ... but ...


The color scheme I proposed was used by another (German) sniper (which still is no longer supported) and had a "logical" meaning
(like "Traffic lights").

White = blank = nothing defined

Green = you are on the secure side - at the moment. If nothing changes
you will win the auction

Yellow - Attention = though at the moment your bid is leading, you don't
know whether the max bid of the others will be higher
= pay attention!

Red - Alert! Warning! Other bids are higher. You must act!

Red
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your color scheme plan seems to imply a false assumption: that bids placed via gixen are tracked in real time at the gixen web interface. Which they are not.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The traffic light system makes sense with minor modifications to keep it in line with existing colour usage.

YELLOW - no bid entered or below min (as now)
WHITE - bid entered and above current bid (as now)
ORANGE - bid entered is BELOW current bid or bid increment

RED - Editing (as now)

Then AFTER the auction has ended...
PINK (actually a paler shade of RED) - you LOST
GREEN (a light shade) - you WON.

The lighter shades would easily identify auctions that have ended.

I realise that Gixen does not update auctions in real time so WHITE/ORANGE would not necessarily be up to date, but where you enter a bid a day or more in advance it should update sufficiently that you’d be warned a few hours before the end that your bid is now too low. ie pretty much as it does now but ORANGE brings more attention to it than reverting to YELLOW.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry my mistake.

YELLOW would only be for BID NOT ENTERED.
Once you add a bid it would either be WHITE (valid) or ORANGE (too low).
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2021 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I’m new to Gixen but am excited by the possibilities and wish I would have found this sooner. I won my first auction and have become a Mirror subscriber. As far as using colors to glean some quick status info…

How about a break line between ENDED and ACTIVE (new feature), green if a winner (new feature).
All other coloring remains as is.

ENDED (WHITE/GRAY = LOST)
ENDED (GREEN = YOU WON) (new feature)
ENDED (WHITE/GRAY = LOST)
==================== (ENDED/ACTIVE BREAK LINE new feature)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (YELLOW, YOU ARE OUTBID)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)

or maybe instead of the single break line, you might prefer 2 headings...

[ENDED]
blaw blaw blaw (GREEN for winners)

[ACTIVE]
blaw blaw blaw (no color changes)
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