Actually they did make the settings cleaner in Windows 11… just that they added a bunch of stuff that IMO doesn’t need to be there - unless you’re trying to copy the Apple philosophy of Function Follows Form. I’m old school where I care more about what an applicatiton does, rather than what it looks like doing it. I just don;t see the need to have scrollbars fade in when active and fade out when not. LOOK there’s a squirrel! It’s just bloat. Plus it just slows you down as you have to wait a second for the bar to fade in to see what you;re doing.
That being said… along those same lines. I did make a minor change in the Fx Dialog. I just made the Formula box fixed in height. Just like fading scrollbars there’s no need to have the box expand / contract in this case. In dialogs where there’s more than 1 formula box, and we’re trying to conserve screen space, then it makes sense to have the active box expand.
Just grab and widen the dialog window. The size is saved in your settings. Like I said I just sceencapped the smallest size the dialog can go. Also visually having the formula box go across the whole top over the Variables frame is wonky. By having 2 seperate columns your eyes scan up / down each col, instead of across the top, down one col down the other, back across the top, etc.
I wouldn’t tab it… too many tabs for a TabWidget. What I could do is the use the same “List Widget” design, minus the icons that is used in the Prefs and Pattern Piece dialogs. It’s a bit more work, but it would make things a bit more consistent. It’s basically the same look, minus the checkbox icon.
Ok… here’s the dialog with a List Widget based menu… one benefit it has over the radio buttons is if the list widget is selected the up / dn arrows move the selection item. I think the List Widget presents itself more of the menu that it is over the Radio Buttons. Also the “Variables” labels is kinda moot… so it’s gone.
Thank you. I’ve been trying to get the dialog to center on the screen, but it keeps wanting to open as if it’s the default smallest width, so if you make it larger it’s always shifted the right of the screen. I’ve done it with a couple other dialogs, but this one is being stubborn.
I also considered adding another column and filling in the value of variables, but it’s a bit involved so I may come back to that at a later time. It’s not a crucial item.
Got that fixed and it now centers on screen. Also made the selected tab item highlight the whole grid size, and not just the text background - which was kind of wierd with the different lengths off the items. Think we’re good to go for now.
Agreed, this would be functional and look good.