[CELayoutEditor]Request: local lock widget size position etc

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[CELayoutEditor]Request: local lock widget size position etc

Postby Evak » Mon Mar 23, 2009 00:19

I use cegui for a level editor which has a fairly complicated layout. One thing that happens often is that I have to use the browse layout treeview to select widgets as much as possible since manipulating widgets can be a little hit or miss sometimes.

What I mean by that is clicking on a widget with the mouse cursor can make the item you clicked on move a pixel unintentionaly instead of just selecting. There are a few quirky behaviours like this which require saving quite often and reloading to undo an fudged mouse action.

One feature I would like to see is the ability to lock a widgets position and scale localy, I tried the padlock icon but it seems to do is lock your selection so only it can be manipulated. I'd like to see a lock that locks all of the selected widgets data, so you can't accidentally edit it once locked.

To be honest I'd really love a way to lock transforms to either absolute or relative coordinates. Too many times I load in a UI or have to scale a framewindow and the whole panel needs to be modified because all the widgets inside changed from absolute to relative coordinates. Even if the scale is correct it means that if I later have to scale the widget I need to start all its position and scale properties from scratch to make sure its pixel accurate.

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Postby CrazyEddie » Tue Mar 24, 2009 09:47

Hi,

Thanks for the feature requests, there are some good ideas :)

I edited the topic subject so it's clear it's about the layout editor. And I'll let scriptkid handle the meat and potatoes of your requests (proper responses, mantis tickets, etc, etc...)

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Postby scriptkid » Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:55

I heard my name! :)

Both the selection locking, and the relative/absolute editing of positions are functionality, which are not very intuitive. I think that the locking should be the reverse of what i does now.

About the positioning, i am thinking (dangerous) about being able to toggle a 'preferred' mode, with Relative, Pixels, and Both as the options. For example, when the mode is Pixels, the 'scale' values in the grid could be grayed out. That's just an idea which i have.

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