In the new builder I find that since you cannot drag things into the hierarchy you must drag into the UI preview. This is a bit annoying, actually very annoying because you cant put it in the right container first time. If you drag something in it will not go where you want it, also a second drag to put it where you want it and then the editor seems to stop updating (ie i move a button into a container in centre, and it has worked but it doesnt show all the other buttons now - in fact somehow then the container goes to EAST too requiring me to fix the contraints again). I can "refresh" it with a quit n reload, but a "refresh" button would be nice (until the bug is fixed). I find quite a large amount of refresh issues in the menus too...requiring me to quit and reload to get them to show what they should be showing. And not being able to drag into the hierarchy is just bizarre to me. I think you should be able to undock the 4 "tabs" into windows that you can use/see simultaneously instead of having to click on them each time, which requires much more effort, and confuses me, and also means you cannot see all options at once which feels strange.
I have written over a 1000 words on the new editor, but I want to use it for a few days before I give my main thoughts, but personally not being able to drag into hierarchy really ruins the usability of the tool and creates extra effort of almost blindly dragging things and hoping they go into the right container and then fighting with refresh issues. I think if the refresh bugs were fixed, and the tabs were undockable so they can all be used simultaneously, it might be quite good - who knows it might be *very *good :-). But for now it feels quite hampered and definitely in beta, had crashes, freeze ups, unupdated code, and many refresh issues, and LOTS of issues just trying to drag things into the right container (something that worked pretty well on the old editor) and tearing my hear out because I have to keep checking hierarchy going back etc, then quit reload to refresh it etc. I also cannot find anywhere to adjust the UIID and styling stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CodenameOne Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/codenameone-discussions. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/codenameone-discussions/25c68690-a23b-4a83-8e17-950d6f5460e0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
