Well, that's the only thing you changed about the properties, but hardly the only thing you changed.
It took me a while to figure out how to arrange things in a relative view. THAT has certainly changed! For the better, certainly -- but it is very hard to figure out. It's hard to figure out why dragging things in most positions doesn't work -- that you have to go to that grid, which at first doesn't seem to be what you are looking for. That is, while the new functionality is much cleaner and more usable -- it is also much less discoverable. I don't have a solution, other than having some highly-visible detailed documentation. The meaning of the different positions on that grid I also find confusing -- but the way it shows you the attributes it sets makes that aspect discoverable. In fact, were it not for that, I'm not sure I ever would have figured it out, and would have just ignored the whole thing, and edited the XML for everything. Just to illustrate the value of "discoverable".... The issue with the "missing" properties view is much the same deal. The forced properties view was indeed, as you put it, "very annoying". But it was also very obvious. Now that I know how to use it, I definitely prefer the new interface -- but it's a lot harder to just point someone at it and have them succeed. On Dec 11, 6:57 pm, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > the only thing we changed is not forcing the display of the property > view which was very annoying. > > just display it again as mentioned in another message and it'll be there. > > The right click menu is just a quick shortcut to properties that are > just enums/flags. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
