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Re: why cant i edit an image a second time? [message #21325 is a reply to message #20338]

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:32

mrjt
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cbpporter wrote on Thu, 12 March 2009 12:07

cbpporter wrote on Tue, 24 February 2009 09:30

Ctrl-T is the default key to change between representations for both image editor and layout designer. If you run your application while the image editor or layout designer is in an active tab they will automatically be changed to the text representation to allow debugging. So press Ctr-T or do as I do: I always switch the tab to one containing source code.

On the other hand, default switching to text representation should be disabled IMO. Average users will not care about debugging image or layout macros, and the issue with users not knowing about Ctrl-T comes up every one or two months. Or at least a popup the first time this happens, informing the user and having a check box with �do not show this again�.

I think that the right solution for this problem should be adding two buttons in the layout/image editor above the column lists. One for editor mode, and one for text mode. And switching to text mode would add a header with the same two buttons over the code editor. Or maybe the buttons should be on the toolbar in editor mode.

I actually do use the text version of .lay fairly often. The issue here is more that TheIDE automatically switches to text mode too often IMO, I see no reason why it should do this during debugging for instance. The text version should only be visible in two situations IMO:
1) User selects text mode
2) A parsing error, in which case a prominent error should be displayed too.

What I really want is button that temporarily disables layout springs in the Layout Designed so that I can resize a window without having to reset them all!

luzr

Maybe you can commit it as branch for now...

Maybe I could work on it a bit too...

There is already a branch for this called something like 2008.1-nv, but unodgs hasn't committed for a long time. Why are you afraid of commitment Uno? Laughing

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