A question/survey of sorts for users of Navigator

[Alan Stenhouse]

Sounds interesting Geoff. The ability to customise your own actions on objects would be great - I think we all get annoyed with some of the clunkiness of repeated actions (and no doubt we don't use all the existing capabilities of LC..), so your addition to Navigator sounds very worthwhile!

cheers
Alan

> On 5 Jan 2022, at 3:30 am, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> 
> 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