Navigator 6.1 alpha1 is out

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 05:37:11 EDT 2018


I made a slight update to fix an issue with the drag and drop indicators.
Using some fonts in Navigator's list field would cause the indicators to be
off when dragging in long lists. Oddly, this seems to be because the
effective textHeight of the field reports a 1-off pixel count. So instead
of using that I switched to using the textheightsum / the number of lines
of the field. Wasteful, but accurate.

You can update Navigator to get the fix. As usual:

 Get Navigator here
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz3zqi4botzglgq/navigator.zip?dl=1>. Or grab it
from GitHub <https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator>.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 3:46 PM Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Phew -- this was a lot of work, as I basically had to (for about the ninth
> time!) completely re-write a portion of the drag-and-drop code, which is by
> far my least favorite part of Navigator.
>
> Briefly, this release does three things:
>
> 1. Fixes drag-and-drop code so that it should work correctly even if: you
> have folded groups; you have applied a test filter so that only some
> controls are displayed; you have applied a text filter so that only some
> controls are displayed.
>
> Makes group folding much more transparent by:
>
> 2. Adding a color strip to the left side of the Navigator display that
> shows where to click a group to fold/unfold it.
>
> 3. Adding a line below a folded group that says something like, "8 folded
> controls."
>
> Apart from providing a visual cue that a group has been folded, the part
> that required looking at much of Navigator's code is that the line from (3)
> actually represents the 8 (or whatever) controls in that group. You can
> click on that one line and drag them someplace else, or modify their
> properties. Etc, etc.
>
> There's no functionality in Navigator yet to "collapse" any set of
> controls other than when folding the controls in a group, but there's
> nothing to prevent it I don't think. So if you have suggestions beyond just
> adding a command to the Navigator pop-up menu to "fold these controls" let
> me know.
>
> Making it so that any line in Navigator's display can represent any number
> of controls is fundamental to much of what Navigator does, so this is
> definitely an alpha release.
>
> As usual, you can get Navigator here
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz3zqi4botzglgq/navigator.zip?dl=1>. Or grab
> it from GitHub <https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator>.
>
> Now on to a couple bugs that have been reported...
>



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