LC 8 Property Inspector

[Scott Rossi]

Instead of a scrolling accordion list with grouped sets of properties,
allow me to get radical and suggest a fixed index list on the left or
along the top of the palette.  You'd get one-click access to any category,
and no need to expand/collapse panes.  With an accordion control, you'll
likely suffer the same issues found in the current Project Browser: to
much vertical scrolling required to get to what you want, and no constant
reference for all property categories since they can be scrolled out of
view.

I may be voicing dissent here, but as you say "Let 1000 flowers bloom." :-)

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 10/8/15, 2:20 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >> Here's an implementation I've been using whenever I need things
> >> not found in any Inspector:
> >> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_Props.rev.gz>
> >>
> >> The design is largely functional, but suboptimal. Time permitting it
> >> would group related properties together under collapsible headers.
> >
> > Completeness is indeed important, especially to newcomers as you
> > point out.
> > There are some strange omissions from the pre-8 PI, e.g. it doesn't
> > have a place to specify a behavior for an option menu which, when I
> > first started using LC, led me to believe option menus couldn't have
> > behaviors for some reason.  I see that's been corrected in v8.
> >
> > However, once you're past the newcomer stage, showing every possible
> > property is probably something you don't want, which brings me to
> > the issue of layout flexibility, the ability to organize properties
> > together in a way that makes sense for each individual user.
>
>The collapsible headers I referred to is the enhancement a good Property
>Sheet should have to allow users to find properties easily.
>
>Logical groupings allow you to work with just color props, or
>size/location props, etc. as needed, and likely only crazy people like
>me would expand all of them at once in an alphabetic list like the one
>I'd built to see them all at once.
>
>Ken Ray and I discussed having one of the theoretical collapsible
>headers being Favorites, so anyone who finds themselves using a certain
>subset of props frequently can include them there while still keeping
>the logical groupings it would ship with by default.
>
>The real value of the Prop Sheet implementation I shared isn't that it's
>complete in that way, but merely that all of its prop labels and values
>use only one field to display them.  Super easy to build and maintain,
>and efficient to work with.
>
>-- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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