Put sizes together in properies tab

[Barry Marks]

I realize this is a very small point but it's the only thing I see to complain about.

It would be very nice if the height and width of a control was together and the top and left coordinates were placed together instead of having everything alphabetical.  One way to do both, of course, would be to make Height read Control Height or Ctl Height.  Clumsy, maybe, but I think it makes sense.

If you don't do this I probably won't cry about it.

Barry

[Michael Stefanik]

It'd be more work, but one approach would be to have two different toggleable views, one with the property list as it is now, and the other grouped into catagories; so, for example, properties that deal with the visual aspects of the control would be in one group, properties that deal with the position and size of control in another group, and so on.

[Gary Stout]

I second the idea of having them all together. I never did much with VB, so I am not sure if it done it the same as FF currently does, but I do like the thought of them being next to each other.

Gary

[Paul Squires]

It is very easy for me to change the order of the properties (if that's what the user want). I could have the left, top, height, width properties immediately after the (WindowStyles). After the size properties then I could list the remainder of them alphabetically.

We'll see how many users weight in on this topic before I change the approach.

[Andrew Lindsay]

Guys,

I put my vote in for Alphabetical AND grouped by function.

Regards

Andrew

[Rolf Brandt]

Alphabetical and grouped by function - similar to VB 5/6.

Rolf

[Brian Chirgwin]

It is very easy for me to change the order of the properties (if that's what the user want). I could have the left, top, height, width properties immediately after the (WindowStyles). After the size properties then I could list the remainder of them alphabetically.

We'll see how many users weight in on this topic before I change the approach.

How about let the user choose. Read the order from the ini file? If fields aren't listed the go at the end in alphabetical order. Each control could have its own order. Like:

[PropOrder]

Command=DIV:Category,left,top,width,height,DIV:Category,text,...
Textbox=left,top,width,height,label,...

Listed props are first, right under WindowStyle, then all others alphabetical. DIV would either be a blank line or could be a centered category title in bold, for those that want to categorize. Depends on how far you want to go.

Not sure how useful it would be to have different controls list props in different order. It may be more confusing not knowing where to look for props. On the other hand certain controls props are used more often than others depending on the control, so listing these first makes sense. For me, I'd really need to try it each way to know which is best. Maybe this is overkill.

[Barry Marks]

It is very easy for me to change the order of the properties (if that's what the user want). I could have the left, top, height, width properties immediately after the (WindowStyles). After the size properties then I could list the remainder of them alphabetically.

We'll see how many users weight in on this topic before I change the approach.

I'd like that, but you probably already guessed that.

I do think it's a small point and I know you're busy now.   It was just the only thing I could complain about at the time.

However, I do have 2 more complaints now.  One is about the message entry in this forum.  When I fill the alloted space to enter text it doesn't scroll properly.  I have to copy what I've typed into notepad and finish it and then copy it back.  I'm using IE 8 in Vista.

The other thing is that the search facility in FF3 does nothing when it doesn't find the target.  Instead of telling me so I can do something else, I have to check carefully to see if it found it or not.  An indication that it didn't find something would be nice.

Again, minor stuff but I figured you'd want to know.

Barry

[John Montenigro]

1. I'd like the option of seeing the properties grouped by related functions, but I'd appreciate being able to switch to alphabetical if I needed to.

2. I complained about the "bouncing message text" problem in another thread, and I think it was Mike Stefanik who provided the solution: go to the top of the forum page and select Profile, Modify Profile, Look and Layout, Set Default to WYSIWYG.

3. IIRC, Paul fixed the Search problem in 3.04.

[Barry Marks]

2. I complained about the "bouncing message text" problem in another thread, and I think it was Mike Stefanik who provided the solution: go to the top of the forum page and select Profile, Modify Profile, Look and Layout, Set Default to WYSIWYG.

Thanks.  I'll give that a try.

Barry