[Ohrrpgce] Collection root slices Fill Parent

James Paige Bob at hamsterrepublic.com
Sun Oct 25 16:06:51 PDT 2020


I enthusiastically endorse all of this plan :)

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James Paige

On Sun., Oct. 25, 2020, 6:23 p.m. Ralph Versteegen, <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Visibility of the root slice of a collection can be toggled with F5.
> I feel like they should maybe be visible by default, because the root
> slice is the slice you get a handle to from "load collection", and so
> they're pretty important, but many people don't understand what they are or
> that they can be edited in the editor.
>
> Also, root slices are set to Fill Parent by default, to ensure that
> they're the same size of the screen, even if you change the game
> resolution. But I think that in most ways this is a bad thing and I suggest
> we change the default for newly created collections.
>
> The problem with having the root set to fill is that you can't move or
> reposition the collection slice after loading it!! How many people have
> wondered why "put slice" didn't work? As Bena told me, "it seemed natural
> that I'd be able to do that; didn't give it a second thought until it
> didn't work". Plus if you try to reparent your collection to some slice
> that isn't the same size as the screen it will change size... although
> you're only going to align something to right or bottom edges of the root
> if its some kind of UI.
>
> However, changing the default Fill Parent setting would be add a new
> source of confusion because you can't tell just by looking at a collection
> whether the root is set to fill or not. Maybe we should just add "(fill)"
> (or an icon! I'm planning to add lots of icons to the slice editor, and
> kylekrack has drawn me some!) in the root slice description line. Actually,
> yes, all filling slices should have a little Fill Parent icon.
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