In addition to objects’ Left, Top, Width, and Height showing in the Inspector, also have Right and Bottom as entry fields.
It would make it easier to see if multiple selected objects have a specific Right or Bottom coordinate and make it easier to set all the Right or Bottom coordinates to a number while leaving the Left or Top coordinates unmodified.
Useful in the case where many horizontal objects of differing Top coordinates require the same Bottom coordinate.
Please post the Issue number when you create a case there.
That way people interested can upvote your feature request.
I have not created an issue for this.
Should Feature Requests be preceded by the creation of an issue?
From what I understand: Features Requests and Bugs should be created on the Issues system.
This forum section is for discussion about the case created there. This to avoid using the Issues system for general comments and focus there on the case.
I was under the impression that this forum had some information about this but can’t find it anymore, maybe I’m not remembering correctly or an update on the forum cleared that information.
What you’re asking for is essentially the Constraints UI, which is very complex to implement – both for Xojo and us users – and I don’t see Xojo expanding them to targets beyond where they already exist (iOS). It seems that Apple has been pulling back on its own encouragement of using its Constraints system in recent years and favoring traditional Left/Top/Width/Height.
I guess I clicked on the icon and removed it from showing. Thanks.
How about just showing a label with the Right/Bottom? Sometimes can make sense instead of just trying to add Left + Width to know the right (same for bottom). Specially when:
#69233 - The Left, Top, Width and Height properties in the Inspector should update live
is implemented.
I logged this 5 years ago:
https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/55963
Got it. Issue: 55963 would be the one to use.
I can appreciate the switch to using Left/Top/Width/Height when managing objects with code. I would just like to view the bottom and right, rather than having to mentally calculate them, when moving objects in the layout. Not having the bottom coordinate when manually placing objects presents a difficulty analogous to having the bottom coordinate and not the top coordinate.
