Regaining IDE Efficiency: Property Inspector

[J. Landman Gay]

Me either. I tried to like them, and tested at least three, and even made 
my own. But in the long run it's all muscle memory for me. I need 
landmarks, and colors aren't enough.

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On August 9, 2018 7:13:27 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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