Scott Rossi wrote:
Instead of a scrolling accordion list with grouped sets of properties,
allow me to get radical and suggest a fixed index list on the left or
along the top of the palette. You'd get one-click access to any category,
and no need to expand/collapse panes. With an accordion control, you'll
likely suffer the same issues found in the current Project Browser: to
much vertical scrolling required to get to what you want, and no constant
reference for all property categories since they can be scrolled out of
view.
I may be voicing dissent here, but as you say "Let 1000 flowers bloom." :-)
At the risk of sounding boring, I think we're talking about the same thing.
If we took the existing Inspector and replaced the icons at the top with
horizontal labels we'd have something like (where "*this*" indicated
hilited item):
----------------
| Colors |
----------------
|*Size* |
----------------
| Behavior |
----------------
| Other |
----------------
| Favorites |
----------------
| List of |
| name-value |
| properties |
| for item |
| hilited |
| above |
| goes |
| here |
----------------
An accordion style would keep all the labels visible, simply putting the
scrolling list field of name-value property pairs immediately below the
selection, taking the same amount of room but just making the header
more readily associated with the list it delivers:
----------------
| Colors |
----------------
|*Size* |
----------------
| List of |
| name-value |
| properties |
| for item |
| hilited |
| above |
| goes |
| here |
----------------
| Behavior |
----------------
| Other |
----------------
| Favorites |
----------------
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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