That sounds quite useful actually, but I think that what defines an object should be editable. For instance, I prefix all my controls with a 3 characters like lbl, fld, btn, grc etc.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2022, at 23:02, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > After twenty years, I still use Navigator every time I open LiveCode, and > still think of new features. > > One of the very first things I put in Navigator was to make double-clicking > a control open the script for that object, because I edit scripts far more > often than I set properties. > > There are now many ways to do other things with controls, and you can > configure double-click to do something else if you want. > > But today, I was putting label fields onto a card and editing the contents > of them (also one of the first things I set up in Navigator, because it > bugged me to have to use the properties palette, and the second tab of it > at that, to edit the contents of a field) and it occurred to me: I almost > never put a script in a label field, but I edit their contents all the time. > > So: what if you could easily configure Navigator to do different things by > default when you double-click? Double-click a button: edit script. > Double-click a field with "label" in the name, edit its contents. > Double-click a set of controls: open alignment for them. Double-click a > freehand graphic, edit its points. Not sure about that last one, and maybe > the label example is the only real use case. > > But let me know if this is something that would be useful. > > gc > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode