LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/2/2016 11:29 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
>> >2) we cannot resize the content area for fields of custom props! ouch!
> Yes it would seem reasonable to allow us to resize the custom control pane down enlarging the value field and put scrollbars on it. Perhaps the option to turn on and off wrapping would be helpful too.

Ditto for the content area for fields, which shows only one line. It 
needs to be far taller by default, and resizeable. I think we all edit 
text in there, it's the easiest way to change the content of a locked 
field without tinkering with its other properties. I need to see at 
least a few paragraphs most of the time.

The widths of buttons like those in the graphic effects pane are 
overbearing. They should probably be about half their current width. I 
suspect they were made that wide to accomodate the width of the stack 
header, but they do look sort of clunky. I'm not sure how to solve that, 
but the layout doesn't look right.

The ink effects popdown in the Color pane is also too wide, about three 
times wider than the text it contains, which leaves a large, unused 
empty area above it in the window. Ideally the description of the 
pattern boxes would appear to the right of each box instead of under the 
color description (I know that won't be easy, given the new method for 
building the inspector) but that would fill up some of the empty space.

But even better, I really want the ink popdown to be a list field like 
it was before, which could fit nicely in all that unused space at the 
right of the color/pattern boxes. I think most of us cycle through all 
the ink options looking for the right one, and using arrow keys to 
travel up and down the list is extremely convenient -- one keystroke and 
the target object changes its ink instantly. You can view them all very 
quickly. A popdown button requires you to complete dozens of manual 
selections, and that's not only slow, it's hard on my tendonitis.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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