Some more on the wishlist

The Projucer
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I’ve been using the Jucer again and thought about some small additions that could greatly enhance productivity.

  • being able to replace an existing subcomponent by another one while keeping all the properties which are common to all jucer components: name, location, size, tooltip… (Right-Click->Replace->list of components)

  • Editing position/size of multiple selected components at once with the mouse and/or by manually entering the surrounding rectangle dimensions

  • Aligning selected components vertically/horizontally

  • equally distributing selected components positions vertically/horizontally inside their bounding rectangle.

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Nice ideas, I’ll note them down, though I’m even busier than normal at the moment, so unlikely to get round to it any time soon!

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yeah… write’em down Jules…
also, could be interesting to have the possibility to select if a colour property: - is fixed (thus evaluated runtime as “Colour(xxx)” as usual)

  • or be initialized from a Colour member in the Component (when u want to have getters and setters methods)
  • or be evaluated as an external String (think when using a globally defined ColourScheme)

this way you don’t have to manually edit paint method for change my background graphics gradients to follow a user definable colour scheme…

:slight_smile:

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ah another simple thing that i’ve noticed… using the arrow keys let you move the components, but not the graphics elements… is that wanted ?

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Probably just an oversight - I’ll take a look when I get chance…

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a smallie request:

can we have a //[PreUserPaint] and //[PostUserPaint] instead of a single //[UserPaint] done after all internal jucer painting ? i have to share a common background between some jucer components and i shouldn’t place a empty component underneath just to paint a background…

this, and the possibility to use a named property Colour (put “myMemberColour” or “getColour (MyInternalColourID)” instead of putting fixed “Colour (r,g,b)” calls in the paint code) would be great features !!

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Sure, I’ll add a pre-paint block. Already had a note of the request for named colours, I think.

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thanx :slight_smile: