Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-19 Thread Ville M. Vainio
If you fill the cells with stickynotes (as in tabula), the editors would at least stick to the nodes. Otoh, if more felxible body editors are just around the corner, it may not be worth the hassle. On Apr 19, 2012 1:51 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:48:42

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-19 Thread Matt Wilkie
That is, you would edit and view all the children of the currently focused node all at once. I often use Edit in notepad (or more likely pyscripter) for this purpose. It would be nice to stay inside Leo; I sometimes lose data by forgetting which editor has the most current version. -- -matt

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-19 Thread Ville M. Vainio
Have you tried alt-x stickynote from stickynotes plugin? On Apr 19, 2012 10:16 AM, Matt Wilkie map...@gmail.com wrote: That is, you would edit and view all the children of the currently focused node all at once. I often use Edit in notepad (or more likely pyscripter) for this purpose. It

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: tabula plugin allowed you to edit many nodes simultaneously in an MDI canvas - i.e. you could move the body editors around freely. Tabula is part of the stickynotes plugin. It creates the following commands:

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:37:22 +0300 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: How about taking this idea further and locking the body editors in a grid, or column? When the body editor is a well behaved widget it should be straight forward to place them where ever you want in using the

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Kent Tenney
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:37:22 +0300 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: How about taking this idea further and locking the body editors in a grid, or column? When the body editor is a well behaved widget it

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:37:22 +0300 When the body editor is a well behaved widget it should be straight forward to place them where ever you want in using the free-layout mechanism. Are you suggesting doing

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:12:45 -0500 Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: When the body editor is a well behaved widget it should be straight forward to place them where ever you want in using the free-layout mechanism. Are you suggesting doing free-layout in tabula? No, although

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Ville M. Vainio
I am bringing another angle into play here - systematic selection of what nodes are shown in the editors, in the proposed scheme we would have a single column of editors, each displaying every child of currently selected node. Expanding the scope to a grid, we could have a grid-lock-column that

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:42:21 +0300 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: I am bringing another angle into play here - systematic selection of what nodes are shown in the editors, in the proposed scheme we would have a single column of editors, each displaying every child of currently

RE: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Ville Vainio
You are probably right. We Could also adjust the sizes dynamically based on the amount of text in the nodes Sent from my Windows Phone From: Terry Brown Sent: 4/18/2012 10:31 PM To: leo-editor@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:42:21 +0300 Ville M

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Apr 18, 10:53 am, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: When the body editor is a well behaved widget it should be straight forward to place them where ever you want in using the free-layout mechanism. Yes. This might the key. As I was thinking about doing body editors with

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Apr 18, 1:42 pm, Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: I am bringing another angle into play here - systematic selection of what nodes are shown in the editors, in the proposed scheme we would have a single column of editors, each displaying every child of currently selected node. The

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Kent Tenney
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 18, 10:53 am, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: When the body editor is a well behaved widget it should be straight forward to place them where ever you want in using the free-layout mechanism. Yes.  

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: As I was thinking about doing body editors with free_layout (and by extension, the tabula editors) I had another new thought: it's time to replace the present difficult selection code with a broadcaster/

Re: UI idea: body editors in a grid

2012-04-18 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:45:25 -0500 Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: Another feature I've wanted to add to free_layout is popping out any element into its own window (replacing sticky-notes). You could go one better and pop-out free-layout frames which could contain multiple