Now that I am finally allowed into the forums, my first post will be a rant: Yuck to the “Inspector”
Big, takes up a lot of valuable desktop/design space on my secondary dev 13inch MacBook. I mean, the Inspector/Library takes up almost a third of my screen during design time. I hope future versions will shrink this down a bit. Large icons (this large anyway) used for similar purposes has to be breaking some kind of UI design standard somewhere
Need to have Scope flags back!
the way XOJO indicates who is Private/Public etc is not well done… the Green Ball/Triangle/Red Minus were MUCH more intutitive
[quote=10174:@Dave S]Need to have Scope flags back!
the way XOJO indicates who is Private/Public etc is not well done… the Green Ball/Triangle/Red Minus were MUCH more intutitive[/quote]
I’m not a fan of either one but you do have a choice. There is also a preference setting for this. See Preferences->General->Show Item Scope. Two choices, Behind Item Text (default I believe) and Over Item Icon.
[quote=10174:@Dave S]Need to have Scope flags back!
the way XOJO indicates who is Private/Public etc is not well done… the Green Ball/Triangle/Red Minus were MUCH more intutitive[/quote]
You can change how this is displayed in Preferences: General: Over item icon.
Is there any way to make the inspector and library smaller? I do most of my work on a laptop (1366x768) and the two of them take up 42% of my screen width. It probably is OK on the 27" monitor on my desk, but it’s almost unusable on the laptop. I’m going to try it for a day or so, but right now I’m thinking I will stick with the old IDE until the work area on the new one is larger.
There’s already been a lot of discussion about this. We’re hoping that there will be some compression in the upcoming release(s). I have the same screen economy as you and, yeah, it’s a bit of a ■■■■■■ when trying to work on an interface.
100% agreed - screen space is at a premium in development IDEs, and there now is a lot of wasted space on the right and on the left. Hope this will be fixed.
I dont like the inspector too but you can get rid of it by clikcing on the inspector icon at the top right , this makes the screen slightly better size. I am not sure I like the bit on the left as you dont seem to be able to get rid of it .
This is a major issue for me when working on my laptop. Just added my comments to the Feedback Case and put my full Xojo Pro points against it. I believe it is sitting at 8th place now.
To my friends at Xojo…Overall, excellent job on the new IDE as it looks clean and professional. I just need it to work on a smaller monitor.
[quote=10746:@Robert Litchfield]This is a major issue for me when working on my laptop. Just added my comments to the Feedback Case and put my full Xojo Pro points against it. I believe it is sitting at 8th place now.
To my friends at Xojo…Overall, excellent job on the new IDE as it looks clean and professional. I just need it to work on a smaller monitor.