LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2016-03-03 01:55, Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 03/02/2016 02:21 PM, panagiotis merakos wrote:
>> The "mysterious lock icon with a 'Show' tootip" is setting the 
>> cantSelect
>> property of the control. The tooltip should reflect that though, so we 
>> have
>> to update it.
> 
> I'm curious, though, about the decision process that moved the
> cantSelect property up the pantheon of properties out of the Property
> Inspector and into the Project Browser. Is there something particular
> about cantSelect that makes it more important than other properties?

I do recall us having a discussion amongst the team at the time that 
report came in.

Evaluating from a 'screen real estate' point of view then yes, it 
probably is a bit of a waste of space in the PB relative to the 
frequency of the properties use. Now I'm pretty sure that the reason 
'cantSelect' was never in the property inspector before was that once 
you had turned it on, you couldn't select the object again easily and 
thus wouldn't be able to turn it off except via the message box (so 
beginners, in particular, could get themselves into a state where they 
had accidentally set the cantSelect property and then not work out why 
they couldn't select it any more, or set the property back).

Now, having just checked this in the latest LC8 IDE - it seems that 
cantSelect makes no difference to the IDE when you manipulate objects in 
the project browser or property inspector (just when trying to use the 
mouse on the stack itself) so it might well do better in the property 
inspector... Perhaps under an 'advanced' tab where users won't 
accidentally set it and then be puzzled why Edit mode no longer works 
like Edit mode for that object!

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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