A few small Theme UI feature requests

[jasonb1]

1. For multi-state buttons, you can already have different font settings for each state. For regular buttons, it would be nice font setting changes for the pressed state for a cleaner integration of regular buttons and multi-state buttons.

2. Ability to attach WAV files to controls for press/release action. So you can make cool little clicks, beeps, etc. come out of the remote.

3. A few keyboard shortcuts during theme editing would be nice. The two that come to mind as I'm working on this is "Del" for deleting a control, and arrow keys for nudging selected controls by pixels.

4. Sort of long those lines, it would be great if when having multiple controls selected and then changing a position value it would change it for all controls. The user has to be careful in this case of course if that was allowed.

5. To make it easy to create "tab control" interfaces, could it be setup to have the panel change button support an option where you can have a different set of fonts/colors/bitmaps, etc. depending on a panel being active or not? I think I might be able to simulate all of that with a complicated set of modes/tasks/property changes, but it could be easier.



Thanks.

P.S. I've been adding to this list as I attempt to put together a UI that I am creating.

[ScottBot]

1. For multi-state buttons, you can already have different font settings for each state. For regular buttons, it would be nice font setting changes for the pressed state for a cleaner integration of regular buttons and multi-state buttons.

Not a bad ideal. Although even for the multi-state buttons, the font per-state is the same for the pressed and unpressed images.

2. Ability to attach WAV files to controls for press/release action. So you can make cool little clicks, beeps, etc. come out of the remote.

You can do this now, but not per button. You can configure a Key Click wav file in the Theme Properties (Select "Theme/Theme Properties... from the main menu).

3. A few keyboard shortcuts during theme editing would be nice. The two that come to mind as I'm working on this is "Del" for deleting a control, and arrow keys for nudging selected controls by pixels.

Yea, that would be nice. For some reason, it's been a challenge to get keyboard accelerators to work correctly on that Theme editor window.

4. Sort of long those lines, it would be great if when having multiple controls selected and then changing a position value it would change it for all controls. The user has to be careful in this case of course if that was allowed.

If you drag and drop controls that are selected, they will move as a group. If it was done accidentally, you can select the Undo command.

5. To make it easy to create "tab control" interfaces, could it be setup to have the panel change button support an option where you can have a different set of fonts/colors/bitmaps, etc. depending on a panel being active or not? I think I might be able to simulate all of that with a complicated set of modes/tasks/property changes, but it could be easier.

One thing that you can do, is to setup the Panel with the existing styles. Then multi-select the controls and change fonts, images, etc. Changes to selected controls work for the most common functions (like fonts and images), but not for all. It still saves a lot of work.



Thanks for the suggestions,

Scott

[jasonb1]

#1: This one is the most important for my design right now because I have buttons with black text and black border over a darkish panel background with semi-transparent white as the button background. The pressed version of the button has a white border and a dark semi-transparent area in the button background. The font needs to change to white upon press because otherwise the text looks like it disappears.

















I look forward to what you do with these suggestions someday...

- Jason