Hello Janko,
Thanks, I think so too on that wish item, too much clicking required with current system.
I would like to add to the above wish that any properties that has a drop-down list or button that
opens an additional selection window, be visible at all times. Only the properties that require keyboard
entered content should be the ones that do not have any drop lists or buttons visible I guess.
Anyway, Here are a few others I would like for you to consider please:
1. For the font property of all components (that have a font property), make it an expandable
property with sub property lines for selecting color, size and font code range.
Then choosing a font would entail clicking on a always visible drop-list button to scroll through
to select font, like in currently used options window.
The same for the sub properties on fonts.
This would make the font property look like the gradient properties layout.
2. There needs to be a way of easily un-selecting a component so you do not have to mandatory
complete the process of placing the component on the screen, then deleting it.
I suggest that a simple mouse Right-click any where in screen editing area should clear any Add-A-Component
selection that was done and the Esc key also do this, if it does not already.
{Checked, it does not}
3.
For all of your software: "
IF" there needs to be a selection window opened up for displaying
options to choose from, please have the window appear close to where the mouse pointer was at
when the user clicked the control to initiate the process, instead of in the middle of the programs
window or across it on the other side.
This should be common practice in all windows software developed by now (by anyone).
-(It took several attempts of clicking on the software debug variable watch windows display of
variables I wanted to see displayed in decimal format and having each attempt on each variable
leave it so nothing seemed to happen after the first click so I would have to stop debug run in order
to get the variables display format selector to respond again, until I finally realized there was a
option window opening on the other side of my display every time I clicked on the display format
option button by each variable waiting for a selection to be made and [OK] button clicked to proceed.
The default theme colors had a lot to do with not seeing it appear also,
but I was expecting to see something appear where I had clicked.)
4. Different components for displaying text (labels):
One that creates a component object for use when the text will never need to be changed so
its size also stays constant. Simply, the currently used label component but with 'Max Size' property
automatically set by length of the content in the Text property.
This one retains the "Static" property option for users resource placement choice.
One for all the other occasions where the text will be changed and number of characters will vary
up to the defined max character limit property setting.
This one does not have a "Static" property so there is no way to mistakenly set it wrong.
Now here is the reason for wanting a different label component of this type:
This one should also have the additional coding of properly erasing the previous content (label_caption),
when new label_caption content is assigned to it.
Basically, one that has a background color property added that it uses to
first draw a block, (size determined
by font size and max characters settings), of the background color to erase previous text displayed,
then it draws the content of the labels 'Caption' property on a nice cleared area.
How wonderful would that be for us?
That's all for now, Thanks again for considering and hope you all had a wonderful Holiday, Robert.