LC 8 Property Inspector

[Scott Rossi]

Your ascii-drawing-fu is quite skilled :-)

No boredom at all.  I see the difference you mention in limiting the
height of the property list.  I had understood the selected pane would be
expanded to display ALL properties for the category, which could
potentially scroll Behavior/Other/Favorites out of view.

I had to take stab at the option I suggested:

---------------------------------------
| Colors     |   List of               |
----------------  name-value     |
|**Size**    |   properties        |
----------------  for item            |
| Behavior     |   hilited               |
----------------  at left               |
| Other      |   goes here         |
----------------  and maybe       |
| Favorites    |  offers                |
----------------  more                 |
                  |  vertical space    |
                  |  for the list          |
--------------------------------------


:-)

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 10/8/15, 4:33 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>Scott Rossi wrote:
>> 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."
>>:-)
>
>At the risk of sounding boring, I think we're talking about the same
>thing.
>
>If we took the existing Inspector and replaced the icons at the top with
>horizontal labels we'd have something like (where "*this*" indicated
>hilited item):
>
>----------------
>| Colors       |
>----------------
>|*Size*        |
>----------------
>| Behavior     |
>----------------
>| Other        |
>----------------
>| Favorites    |
>----------------
>|  List of     |
>|  name-value  |
>|  properties  |
>|  for item    |
>|  hilited     |
>|  above       |
>|  goes        |
>|  here        |
>----------------
>
>
>An accordion style would keep all the labels visible, simply putting the
>scrolling list field of name-value property pairs immediately below the
>selection, taking the same amount of room but just making the header
>more readily associated with the list it delivers:
>
>----------------
>| Colors       |
>----------------
>|*Size*        |
>----------------
>| List of      |
>| name-value   |
>| properties   |
>| for item     |
>| hilited      |
>| above        |
>| goes         |
>| here         |
>----------------
>| Behavior     |
>----------------
>| Other        |
>----------------
>| Favorites    |
>----------------
>
>
>
>-- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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