Directly open styles/colours in styles

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I wonder if it would be helpful to have a key command that opened the styles/colours dialog with the focus on Styles, and a different key command to open it in colours?

Otherwise, because I use styles much more than colours, not only am I forced to use the mouse to select the colours tab every time I want to change a colour, the next time I need to edit a style I have to again use the mouse over to change the focus back to the styles tab in the styles/colours windoid.

It would seem smarter and more efficient, for a pro app, to have one key command for styles and a different one for colours.

I would personally prefer cmd-opt-S to do styles and cmd-opt-C to do colours, because that is consistent (in English) with cmd-opt-A for actions and cmd-opt-I for Inspector.

I wonder if users here would then prefer cmd-opt-S to directly open the styles editor, and relegate cmd-opt-Y to show/hide site panel? My own workflow is that the site panel is always open, so if I had cmd-opt-S to directly open styles and cmd-opt-C to directly open colours I’d be a much happier Freeway user.

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Keycommands are in short supply!
It would do it for me if freeway remembered the last state. Or a preference
setting to always open it in a chosen state.

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Brian

Chris Thompson said recently:

I wonder if it would be helpful to have a key command that opened the
styles/colours dialog with the focus on Styles, and a different key command to
open it in colours?

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It would be nicer still if you could split the palettes up like in Adobe apps. Why are Styles and Colours grouped together anyway?

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Sometime around 9/2/08 (at 16:59 +0000) Brian Steere said:

It would do it for me if freeway remembered the last state.

It does. In Freeway 5 at least.

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Freeway only remembers the last state of the styles/colours palette as long as the app is open. If I quit Freeway with the palette set to styles, it will open at colours when I re-launch Freeway.

How about separate keystrokes for “styles” and “colours” and a palette that that automatically opens in the same state it was in when I quit the app?

Michael

On 9 Feb. 2008, 5:17 pm, thatkeith wrote:

Sometime around 9/2/08 (at 16:59 +0000) Brian Steere said:

It would do it for me if freeway remembered the last state.

It does. In Freeway 5 at least.

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Oh yeah, this would really be useful. I’ve never understood the colours in Styles palette. And I’ve asked for Text styles to be defauld since Pro 3 version at least.

Sometime you could even open the styles edit window by doubleclicking a style in the palette. I think this got lost in version 4. Please, please bring it back.

How hard would it be to create a style for graphic elements? Like border/no border, border color, thickness etc?

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Sometime around 10/2/08 (at 09:21 -0500) MacFinn said:

Sometime you could even open the styles edit window by
doubleclicking a style in the palette. I think this got lost in
version 4. Please, please bring it back.

In Freeway 3, command-clicking opened the style in the Edit Styles
dialog. I think (straining my memory) that in Freeway 2 you could
just double-click a style to open the edit window, but that was
troublesome as it could also apply the style at the same time.

From Freeway 4, this was changed to require a control-click, which
popped open a contextual-style menu with a few options; New Style,
Edit Style, and Delete Style.

Personally, I liked the immediacy of command-clicking to open the
Edit Styled dialog, but it was a bit non-standard. The control-click
or right-click approach is more consistent, both internally in
Freeway and across other creative apps. And it allows for more than
one operation to be invoked.

How hard would it be to create a style for graphic elements? Like
border/no border, border color, thickness etc?

Oh, yes! I’ve wanted an object styles feature for so long. I’m sure
this ain’t gonna happen for Freeway 5 - because I’m certain that it
would actually be moderately hard. It would require a serious amount
of careful consideration (should it also include actions, action
settings, scale/rotate attributes, etc.?), software engineering and
testing, which could add many months to whatever release date might
be set at the moment. But boy, that would be sweet with a capital
SWEET. Great suggestion! :slight_smile:

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On 10 Feb 2008, at 14:36, Keith Martin wrote:

ow hard would it be to create a style for graphic elements? Like
border/no border, border color, thickness etc?

Oh, yes! I’ve wanted an object styles feature for so long.

Me, too. Preferably with all CSS options available, as neatly executed
as the CSS Edit panels, and with the ability to preview the effect of
the style as you change it.
Just a bit of work there. Maybe in FW10…

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