A question/survey of sorts for users of Navigator

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 02:00:31 EST 2022


After twenty years, I still use Navigator every time I open LiveCode, and
still think of new features.

One of the very first things I put in Navigator was to make double-clicking
a control open the script for that object, because I edit scripts far more
often than I set properties.

There are now many ways to do other things with controls, and you can
configure double-click to do something else if you want.

But today, I was putting label fields onto a card and editing the contents
of them (also one of the first things I set up in Navigator, because it
bugged me to have to use the properties palette, and the second tab of it
at that, to edit the contents of a field) and it occurred to me: I almost
never put a script in a label field, but I edit their contents all the time.

So: what if you could easily configure Navigator to do different things by
default when you double-click? Double-click a button: edit script.
Double-click a field with "label" in the name, edit its contents.
Double-click a set of controls: open alignment for them. Double-click a
freehand graphic, edit its points. Not sure about that last one, and maybe
the label example is the only real use case.

But let me know if this is something that would be useful.

gc


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