On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:41 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 1. Horizontal/column view so it is easy to drill down from stack to card > to object, and see their relationships to everything else. Basically I want > Finder column view. > Navigator doesn't do the Finder column view exactly -- there is a menu with all the cards listed, and you can select any of them to see everything on that card. There's also a card list view, which shows all the cards (in case there are too many to show on a menu) and you can right-click any card to browse its controls. The list is filterable (as all control lists are) to make it easy to find the one you're looking for. > 2. I need to see card numbers and object layer numbers. > Navigator doesn't do this at all -- it never occurred to me. What's the purpose? It would be easy to add in general, but maybe a little bother to get right with the filtering. > 3. I need to see IDs for all cards and objects. > Done, this is a preference setting. > 4. I need the ability to open the property inspector for an unselected > object for quick reference, without changing the current selection or > location. > In the preferences, unhilite AutoUpdate Selection. Then either right click and select Object Inspector (N) or set the prefs so a double-click, option-double-click, or option-command-double-click opens the object inspector. Or use Navigator's built-in property tools. Oh, or make a bookmark of the controls -- clicking bookmarks doesn't update the selection. > I'll probably think of other things. The main problem for me is the amount > of scrolling necessary to locate things > For really long lists of controls the filter function is your friend here. And the ability to open multiple Navigators. I was especially pleased when I made *everything* in Navigator behavior-based, so you can have dozens of copies if you need -- and a titlebar-double-click minimizes any of them, or a command-double-click in any titlebar minimizes/opens all of them. Bookmarks also help here. Wow, and saved control sets. I'd forgotten I did this. Bookmark whatever controls you like, then save and name the set. You can have as many sets as you like, and swap them out with a menu selection whenever you like. It seems control sets are local to a specific copy of Navigator, so I should look at that. , the inability to see where I'm at in the object hierarchy, > Navigator does this well for me, but YMMV and the way the PB forces unwanted navigation. > See the above, and again YMMV. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
