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dasdeck ·
it is meant nicely, but a simple popping window (new windows) for the propertys might be better, you can then see the resaultsa of the changes you mad, if they GUI related. for example the button malc posted. it is much better to see the button when you edit the colours i think. the "close propertys on loose focus" style is very nice! this should stay. imagine it like this: you click on propertys nad a new windows pops up next to the module.
when you click on propertys for another module, the preoperty window gets replaced by the new one, or a new one opens, i think the first is better.
what do you think?
D3CK
Tom7777 ·
I think it should just slide to the right to show the propertys menu keeping the original item if it has graphics so you can see it while you edit as you say.
malc ·
It's a good point and it's something we'd noted too. It is much better to see the effects of your changes as you make them. I think that's the key issue and there are a number of ways of doing this.
One solution is what you're proposing. However, I'm not sure how easy this would be given the way that the software is implemented. The properties mechanism is tied into the front panel system so it would take a fair bit of re-working to allow both to be shown at once.
Another solution is to allow you to see what you're changing in another pane. Imagine a single navigator pane that didn't show the properties, only the module front panels. This preview pane would be useful when doing other work which isn't related to properties as well. It's a feature that has been on the list for a while but hasn't been done yet.
But perhaps the simplest solution is to incorporate a preview into the properties panel itself. I did this very easily using the Knob that I posted in the general section. With this solution you can choose whether and what kind of preview to provide. The knob can be interactive too. Have a look:
Download schematic here
Tom7777 ·
Cool, thanks for the example Malc 🙂
dasdeck ·
good solution. i did not think of it.
infuzion ·
malc wrote: But perhaps the simplest solution is to incorporate a preview into the properties panel itself. I did this very easily using the Knob that I posted in the general section. With this solution you can choose whether and what kind of preview to provide.
Just now finding this in 0.9.5; a neat idea! 😇 2 things that can be confusing:
1) If you resize the main GUI (like the new Knob), you'll also resize the preview; possibly making the preview hard to follow.
2) Is this documented anywhere? I didn't know how to do this... the view connectors into the sub-modules seem backwards to me.
cheers
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