LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

[panagiotis merakos]

The "mysterious lock icon with a 'Show' tootip" is setting the cantSelect
property of the control. The tooltip should reflect that though, so we have
to update it.

Panos
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
wrote:

> On 02/03/2016 16:28, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
>>
>> You can double click on an item in the Project Browser to select it on
>>> the card.
>>>
>>
>> Empirically...
>> You can double click on an item's icon to do that.
>> Double-clicking on the name allows you to edit the name.
>> Single-clicking a line in the PB has no appreciable effect (other than
>> highlighting the line in the PB).
>>
>> Double-clicking the mysterious lock icon with a "Show" tooltip also
>> seems to select the highlighted object.
>>
>
> Thanks -- that's a much more complete / thorough explanation than I
> managed to give.  The Project Browser tries to fit a lot of features into a
> small amount of space and I'm not convinced that we've found the most
> efficient way to pack them.
>
> In the core dev team we use the Project Browser a *lot* when working on
> the IDE.  But we probably use it in a different way to the way many people
> developing apps with the IDE use it.  We need to get more feedback about
> what it does well (so we don't mess with those parts) and clear feedback
> about specific things it does badly (so we can tweak them).
>
> I'm not entirely sure what the "mysterious lock icon with a 'Show' tootip"
> is for... I haven't used it yet.
>
>                                     Peter
>
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