How Intuitive Are My Icons?

[paul_cardinale]

Can you figure out what these should do just by looking?

[RavensFan]

UTF to 8, 16, or 32 bit integers, either little endian or big endian.   (How does endianism apply to an 8 bit)?

Convert to ASCII string,

Convert to Unicode.

The pink on pink is a little hard on the eyes.

How'd I do?

[MichaelBalzer]

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@RavensFan wrote:

UTF to 8, 16, or 32 bit integers, either little endian or big endian.   (How does endianism apply to an 8 bit)?

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That was my first thought, but UTF by itself doesn't mean much (unless UTF-8 is implied). So it could also be interpreted as some string (probably ASCII) to UTF-8, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE. Based on the colour, the output type might be a variant.

Not too sure what UNi does. The red text makes me think it isn't a straight conversion. Perhaps it tests if the input is a valid unicode string?

In any case it's pretty obvious they are some unicode conversion/processing functions.

[paul_cardinale]

1. Yes, endianness doesn't mean anything for UTF-8 (although it is conceiveable for the multi-byte sequences). That was just a mindless blunder when I was slapping the graphics together.
2. They are all conversions
3. Like the built-ins, the inputs are polymorphic (mostly); the icon just shows what it converts to, not what it converts from. So "UTF - 16LE" is what it converts to.  The hyphen and my color choice created confusion there. I'm aiming for a consistent color scheme for this project. The main color being red (well, closer to cerise).  I wanted my functions to all have a matching background color, so I chose pale red. On these conversions, I wanted the text colors to indicate the output type;  but with magenta on pale red, the "BE" and "LE" were very hard to distinguish, so I made them darker.

Ravens Fan: You did well, in the sense that you found deficiencies in my initial icons (which is what I was looking for).

Here's my 2nd whack (though I'm not sure I like the white background):

[GerdW]

Hi Paul,

how do you go beyond the 32 pixel limit (height, width) of VI icons?

[paul_cardinale]

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi Paul,

how do you go beyond the 32 pixel limit (height, width) of VI icons?

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Those are going to be XNodes, which don't have a limit on icon size; so I don't have to try to squeeze things.

[paul_cardinale]

I think I will go with this style:

[Yamaeda]

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

I think I will go with this style:

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Yeah that's better, the '-' immidiately bring the mind to to/from.