Your ascii-drawing-fu is quite skilled :-) No boredom at all. I see the difference you mention in limiting the height of the property list. I had understood the selected pane would be expanded to display ALL properties for the category, which could potentially scroll Behavior/Other/Favorites out of view.
I had to take stab at the option I suggested: --------------------------------------- | Colors | List of | ---------------- name-value | |**Size** | properties | ---------------- for item | | Behavior | hilited | ---------------- at left | | Other | goes here | ---------------- and maybe | | Favorites | offers | ---------------- more | | vertical space | | for the list | -------------------------------------- :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 10/8/15, 4:33 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: >Scott Rossi wrote: >> Instead of a scrolling accordion list with grouped sets of properties, >> allow me to get radical and suggest a fixed index list on the left or >> along the top of the palette. You'd get one-click access to any >>category, >> and no need to expand/collapse panes. With an accordion control, you'll >> likely suffer the same issues found in the current Project Browser: to >> much vertical scrolling required to get to what you want, and no >>constant >> reference for all property categories since they can be scrolled out of >> view. >> >> I may be voicing dissent here, but as you say "Let 1000 flowers bloom." >>:-) > >At the risk of sounding boring, I think we're talking about the same >thing. > >If we took the existing Inspector and replaced the icons at the top with >horizontal labels we'd have something like (where "*this*" indicated >hilited item): > >---------------- >| Colors | >---------------- >|*Size* | >---------------- >| Behavior | >---------------- >| Other | >---------------- >| Favorites | >---------------- >| List of | >| name-value | >| properties | >| for item | >| hilited | >| above | >| goes | >| here | >---------------- > > >An accordion style would keep all the labels visible, simply putting the >scrolling list field of name-value property pairs immediately below the >selection, taking the same amount of room but just making the header >more readily associated with the list it delivers: > >---------------- >| Colors | >---------------- >|*Size* | >---------------- >| List of | >| name-value | >| properties | >| for item | >| hilited | >| above | >| goes | >| here | >---------------- >| Behavior | >---------------- >| Other | >---------------- >| Favorites | >---------------- > > > >-- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > >_______________________________________________ >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