A question/survey of sorts for users of Navigator
Bob Sneidar
bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Fri Jan 7 15:24:34 EST 2022
That sounds quite useful actually, but I think that what defines an object should be editable. For instance, I prefix all my controls with a 3 characters like lbl, fld, btn, grc etc.
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> On Jan 3, 2022, at 23:02, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> 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
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