Regaining IDE Efficiency: Property Inspector

[Mike Kerner]

I'm not a fan of sheets.  I find myself doing constant scrolling because
the property I'm looking for never seems to be on the screen, or if I'm
changing multiple properties and messing with settings to see what the
combination does, I'm constantly going up down up down, overshooting the
property, having to scroll-scroll-scroll to get to the right spot.  You
can't take advantage of the 2D space (think about the position tab in the
PI as the most obvious example) to organize related properties.  You also
can't use graphics or group boxes, shadows, colors, or backgrounds to make
it clearer how properties are associated with each other.

Shortcuts to switch tabs in the PI would make navigating better, IMHO.
Ctrl-right arrow or ctrl-left arrow, ctrl-1..n would make flipping between
pages faster, but the layout and the proximity of the tabs to the
properties now still makes navigating between multiple pages of properties
for an object and fiddling with them much faster than a sheet does.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:44 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 08/09/2018 04:21 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote:
>
> > Hint: A property sheet doesn't necessarily need to look like one.
>
> True, but it also shouldn't get in my way.
> And you've done a great job in listing most of the annoyances of the PI.
>
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