Patcher control resizing and snapping

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Scoox
Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:38 pm

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Patcher control resizing and snapping

This is not a bug but it's something that maybe could be improved.

In Patcher, controls resize symmetrically about their geometrical centre point. In other words, when you resize a control, the centre of the control stays fixed and the control expands/contracts in all directions:

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In the above screen capture you can also see how the fader cap grows to an unusable size. It would be nicer if the cap height and width where independent parameters. in fact, it would be nice if Patcher could have a control properties pane like in Dashboard to give users precise numerical control (for example you could easily select several controls and set them all to the same width and height, etc):

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This makes it super difficult to create to controls that are exactly the same size, because each time a control is resized it needs to be re-aligned to the control it's being compared with because all the edges move:

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Everything else in FL resizes like windows (only the edge or corner you drag moves). Other UI design environments also work this way, below is Excel for example:

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Finally, another thing I like about Dashboard is the fact that controls snap to a grid. This is a huge help for creating interfaces to get the controls to aligned properly, especially if you want to share them with other users.

Thanks!


Michael Dow
Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:21 am

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Re: Patcher control resizing and snapping

I'd like to see a resize all. Where you select ...


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