Wish Designer

[Informatix]

What's missing in the designer in my opinion:
- alignment of views on other views
- alignment shortcuts (e.g. a button to center the selected views in one click)
- indication of the distance to the borders and other views when dragging a view
- property editor for all properties
- wysiwyg (on the PC screen)
- better support of custom views

 

[thedesolatesoul]

I was writing a separate post, but I will merge with this one since it is too similar.

There are a number of reasons I dont use the designer and go back to code to create my layouts.
Here is what I would like to see:

1. Scrollbar. Makes it hard to create long layouts for scrollview. (klaus posted a workaround to change the top of the panel, but it is not ideal).
2. Zoom should be adjustable. (Ctrl + Scrollwheel)
3. Ability to select multiple views and align them or make them the same size.
4. Duplicate/copy a panel with child views it is holding
5. Load a layout in a panel or a scrollview from the designer (removes the one line of code: sv.panel.loadlayout ...) (Doesnt have to show or manipulate the nested layout, just assign it)
6. When adding views inside a panel, 100%x should refer to 100% of parent, not activity. Or something similar to be able to make a designer scripts be able to scale according to the size of its parent.

 

[Oankali]

Another thing I miss very often is to be able to copy and paste views across layouts.

 

[Toley]

I would like to have a grid (On/Off selectable) and equivalent hex values of colors in designer.

 

[Erel]

Good points.

@thedesolatesoul point #4 is already supported. About point #6, it already works like this when you load a layout to a panel (with Panel.LoadLayout).

 

[klaus]

Memoirize the Grid size value it's alway set to 10

Best regards.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

I see. I didnt realize #4 is already there (havent used the designer in a while!)
Yes, for #6 confused me a lot when I was coding this, I wasnt really sure what was happening and in the end I gave up in frustration. I think it is a bit confusing, atleast to me.

 

[eps]

"- alignment of views on other views"

this, please!

 

[icefairy333]

sounds like good.wish add them as soon as possible

 

[klaus]

RGB Color 'picker' for the Colors. for ColorDrawables.
Currently we choose a color by name and aftewards it is displayed in RGB values, difficult to find out then what color was choosen.
The RGB chooser like for the GradientDrawable would be better.

Best regards.