On 3/1/2016 8:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
On 03/01/2016 04:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 3/1/2016 5:23 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Don't use the Project Browser so can't comment on the second issue
It's confusing, Ali had to explain it to me. I still mostly use the App
Browser because I need the column layout.
In the Project Browser, the dotted selections are the objects selected
on the card. You can't alter dotted-line selections from within the PB,
you need to open the property inspector for that.
The hilited lines are selections you've made directly in the PB. The
icons at the bottom act on those only. So you can click the icons at the
bottom to manage the PB-selections (the hilited lines) to resize or
align. The card-selected objects (dotted lines) won't change. If you
want the card selections to be acted on, you need to manually re-select
them in the PB so their lines are hilited as well as dotted.
The idea was to be able to select things in the PB that may not be in
view, even on totally different cards or stacks, and be able to work
with them without going there. Hilited lines indicate which objects will
be affected. This could be useful. On the other hand, there is now a
disconnect between visible selections on a card and objects you can act
on within the PB.
Selections also act slightly differently in the Property Inspector. It
used to be you could shift-click several objects and then double-click
any one of them to open the multi-object inspector. That doesn't work
now. Instead you double-click one object on the card to open its
inspector and then shift-click objects to add more. That causes the
alignment icon to appear at the top left of the inspector, and the other
icons will operate on all the selected objects.
I may have to print that out and hang it on the wall.
Wow - the IDE used to be somewhat intuitive.
I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer.
But once it was explained to me, I understood the problem: how to allow
the PB to act on objects that are not on the current card, while still
representing the selected objects that are.
Part of me thinks the dotted lines and the selected lines are backwards;
dotted suggests inactive, and the objects on the card are actively
selected. There's 15 years of IDE history that enforces the idea that
selected card objects should be hilited in the PB. But...the objects
that will be acted on by the PB are also "active" in a different sense;
they are the ones that the PB will change. So I flip-flop. I'm not sure
how it should work.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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