Improve Designer - tab order, parents

Offbeatmammal

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I'd love to see some improvements to the designer.

initial thoughts would be:

* easier setting of tab order (there has to be a better way than exiting the tool and editing the .spb file in notepad to ensure things are added to the form in the right order and/or parent)

* easier control of parent (more visual)

* ability to compose on a larger canvas - for instance if I have 6 panels I want to be able to swap in and out (oh for a tabbed panel control for smartphone) I have to keep shuffling things around

it works okay, but I can't help feeling there's a lot more it could do to make my life easier (and make building nice looking apps easier!)
 

Offbeatmammal

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that kinda works, but it's just as clunky! there's no visual ordering or way of quickly checking. For my needed using notepad worked as well (and I can be sure where things are)

still need to look into things like having a larger canvas to allow multiple full screen panels to be shown (unless a tabbed panel is going to turn up soon for smartphone!) etc
 
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