Which display mode do you use for the Library of Controls in the IDE?
Always:
- small icons and labels
- alphabetically
- no grouping
so I can find stuff.
- Small icons and labels
- Show Group Banners
- Sort Alphabetically
same as Monkeybread
Not really using Xojo much anymore, but when I did:
Seems the consensus is Small/Labelsā¦ with most doing Alphabetically
Thanks
I think you forgot to ask about how old people areā¦ the displayed size will increase when people are past 50/60 y/oā¦
I wanted something in between.
āMidā icons with small labels : List format
Show group banners
Sort alphabetically
That is the default mode mode I useā¦
But the library in Xojo REALLY annoys in some waysā¦ I donāt like long lists.
Things like that there are several entries for buttons that only differ by their defaults AND they donāt sort together alphabetically or donāt have a sub-pallet or sub-menu under buttonā¦
The latter is hat I would like to seeā¦ it would help keep the main list shorter and IMO more usableā¦
Sometimes I will use the category popup to find what I want, but submenus or sub-pallets would be faster IMO.
-Karen
Karenā¦ not sure exactly what you meanā¦ could perhaps you mockup something that might illustrateā¦ Iām open to new ideas
...
Button > PushButton
... BevelButton
... Default Button
... Generic Button
... etc.
Where the āChildrenā are either a submenu or pallet
-karen
So a tree view instead of the current āgroupsā
Sort ofā¦ Groups now groups things that can be disparate enough that it would not be obvious what they would be under in this UI.
As Xojo is now, I canāt always predict what group i should look in for a control I want, but can have a hard time finding it in full list because it is too long (AND Controls entries are not always named the same as the control itself when they have different entries for the control with different defaults)
BTW I donāt know why, but seeing āList Boxā instead of āListBoxā in the list annoys me too!
-Karen
I decided to expand the functionality of my IDE to include similar grouping/categoriesā¦ and still need to decide exactly who goes where, as I do agree, some of in strange placesā¦ and I can add more categories (or less) quite easily
And I have controls that Xojo doesnāt
Xojo have more Controls than other IDEsā¦
In that case a Control that opens (like a PopupMenuā¦) and allow to select the one you want will be a better design, of course, IMHO.
- Small icons and labels
- Show Group Banners
- Sort Alphabetically
Today was the first time Iāve launched Xojo in over a month
The fascinating point is that sometimes using Xojo is like looking on a car accident ā¦