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Hello,

How are controls supposed to be aligned in LiveCode 8. The tab for aligning controls in the Property Inspector of earlier versions in not in the LC 8 Property Inspector? Thanks for your reply.

Monty

Hi Monty,

I think they simply forgot to add this one, remember LC is still an early development version.
You cannot add/edit columns for a datagrid in the inspector either


Best

Klaus

I don't know whether the developers intended to put this in the new Properties palette as it is readily accessible via the menu:
The thing that annoys me about LiveCode 8 is where the developers have, quite needlessly, rearranged aspects of the interface.

@richmond62, tell me what you think is needless and I'll tell you why it was needed

We will put it in the properties palette, when I figure out a clean way of getting things in the properties palette to change things that don't cleanly map to single properties. The 'multiple objects' version of the properties palette still needs work, as we haven't yet dealt with clashing values and so on.

I thought it made sense for it to also be in the Object menu, especially while it is not in the properties palette.

PS. aligning controls is also possible from the actions at the bottom of the project browser

"I'll tell you why it was needed"

The LiveCode 8 Property palette was completely redesigned with a move from a drop-down menu to a series of buttons.

This may make "more sense" in the great, subjective scheme" of things,
but it seems unnecessary to put users to the added cognitive load of
having to relearn a significant part of the interface.

PSSSST! Don't tell anyone I told you, but Scott might have a really slick alignment/layout/etc. tool. It might be called "tmAlign", and it might have a lot of things I wish the IDE had, but doesn't, in a form that's a lot faster/easier to use, and it might even have "undo" functionality.