[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/13114 Add "gently reparent" command, alternative to "set parent" but that pres

[James Paige]

Oh! Right! It would mess up all the other siblings for a grid or layout. I
forgot about that part.



On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 6:38 AM Ralph Versteegen via Ohrrpgce <
ohrrpgce at lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:

> That sounds problematic for grid and layout slices: although you could
> adjust the child's x/y so that it doesn't move, all the other children
> would, and if you similarly adjust all of their positions so that they
> don't move either, well, the result is quite absurd. It would be a far
> better idea to instead implement z-ordering of slices, which could be used
> to cause one child to appear above the others, as well as an incredibly
> diverse array of other uses. I want to implement that but I think
> "z-ordering" is a problematic name, and I'm not sure how/whether it should
> interact with existing walkabout and BattleSprite Z and slice autosorting.
>
> On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 22:02, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I was tempted to also make "gently" versions of the commands like "slice
>> to back" or "move slice above" but didn't get around to it. They would be
>> useful for grids and layouts
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 11:53 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> At least it's a convention, used consistently by all of two commands (I
>>> think) :)
>>>
>>> Making up new jargon seems to be unavoidable.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 12:22, James Paige via Ohrrpgce <
>>> ohrrpgce at lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This might also be my new favorite terrible naming convention :D
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:21 PM subversion--- via Ohrrpgce <
>>>> ohrrpgce at lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> james
>>>>> 2022-09-09 17:21:42 -0700 (Fri, 09 Sep 2022)
>>>>> 170
>>>>> Add "gently reparent" command, alternative to "set parent" but that
>>>>> preserves screen position
>>>>>
>>>>> This is similar to how slices are reparented in the slice collection
>>>>> editor
>>>>> ---
>>>>> U   wip/docs/plotdict.xml
>>>>> U   wip/docs/plotdictionary.html
>>>>> U   wip/plotscr.hsd
>>>>> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
>>>>>
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