An lcstackbrowser user requested the "single tool with option to set the style "some time ago and I implemented it. It takes a lot less screen space and I think is useful for experienced users but might be a little daunting for new users.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > > > I haven't used the Tools palette in years, but this conversation > prompted me to take a gander. > > > > I wonder if having the Widgets above the basic controls is the best > place for them. > > > > I tend to think of UIs as telling a story, and sometimes that can > include communicating the importance of things by their placement. > > > > Having the Browse and Pointer tools at the top, and giving them the > largest target area, seem like good choices given their very central role > throughout development. > > > > But I'll spend weeks at a time adding only buttons and fields to cards, > only occasionally using anything else. > > > > The Widgets, while both useful and cool, are less commonly used. Indeed, > most projects will use most of them once or twice if at all. > > > > Given this, I wonder if it makes more communicative sense to consider > moving the basic controls above the Widgets, closer to the always-used > Browse and Pointer icons. > > > > I might even go so far as to consider moving the graphics above Widgets > as well, to be consistent in terms of frequency of use, though I recognize > that the paint tools are perhaps the least commonly used of all, and they > make sense being grouped near the drawing tools, so perhaps leaving that > whole set at the bottom is fine, and we could just consider moving the > basic tools (buttons, fields, and such) above the Widgets. > > > > Any opinions on this? > > I’m with you on this, Richard. The tools palette is getting very cluttery, > and could stand a tidying up. For instance, right now there are: > - 5 button tools > - 5 field tools > - 5 menu button tools > - 4 scrollbar tools > > Would it make sense to fold each object class into a single tool with an > option to set a different style of each object as the default? Sort of how > Photoshop’s tools palette lets you select the type of marquee tool (or > shape tool, or magic wand tool, etc. etc.) that is the default. > > > > > > > PS: What happens when one has 100 Widgets installed? > > Right. Now you can choose to hide or show entire sections of the tools > palette. (Although I had somehow completely missed that option, and only > noticed it when someone here referred to it.) > > I’d like to see an option to display only selected widgets (or other > tools) on the tools palette. > > > Devin > > > Devin Asay > Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
