Riku Leino schrieb: > Louis Desjardins wrote: > >> Better still, but I think it is already on the >> to-do list, to have Frame Styles and give them keyboard shortcuts... >> This would be super fast and super efficient, imo. How it would work >> is simple: when nothing is selected on the page, just hit that >> keyboard shortcut and the corresponding frame appears, all set. >> > > Well yeah and I remember talking with you Louis about this at LGM (or was it > some earlier thread here) and based on that I've implemented (half way) the > shortcut addition to styles in the new Style manager. Please, bear with me > but it is improving daily. SM was started for that we could have an easy way > to create all kinds of styles and would have a consistent looking and > behaving place to edit and apply them. Frame styles will be the second new > style available. Character styles are already in and semi working. > > The idea about creating an object based on style clicking, I'm not too sure > about that. Where exactly would this apply and what type of frame should be > created when a frame style is clicked without selection? What should happen > if some other style is clicked, character style for example? With a frame > style there'll be all the default frame options plus the options for all > kinds of frame types it's possible to apply to. What I mean is that a frame > style would probably have these sections: 1. General Properties, 2. Text > Frame Properties, 3 Image Frame Properties and 4. Shape/Polygon Properties. I > probably even forgot something. Now when clicking on a frame style with no > selection what frame type should be created? Should there be a check box for > each frame type that could be set to only one of them to create a frame of > that type when this style is clicked. I'd also like to hear what should > happen when clicking on some other style (paragraph, character or even > hyphenation style like CS suggested) without a selection. > > Very good to hear that there will be frame-styles in the future! Can't stand using them!!!
Just my 2 cents: I think, that frames are the fundamental elements of a Scribus-doc. So, perhaps it should be OK to handle frame-styles a little bit other than other styles ...? Agreeing with Riku, there are two differnent properties of a frame-style: 1.) General ones and 2.) Content-specific ones (Text, images and so on). When creating a frame-style, the general properties are no problem: They can be filled with the standard-values like every new frame gets already now. Then, the content-specific ones have to be defined. Here, the most important one is the content-type. When this property is defined, I think it could be possible to activate a button "Create new frame". These are just my ideas ;-) Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------
