I’m just starting out with Xway – yes, late to the game! It’s really promising, and I’m looking forward to beta 2.
Here’s a minor niggle: the Show/Hide button labels in the Inspector pane…
Do they need to be text labels rather than > and V arrows?
Could the full pane title bars be made active so I don’t need to target things quite so precisely?
If not, could they be moved a tad to the left so when there’s a vertical scroll bar visible that doesn’t cover up a good half of those controls? I found it a tiny bit fiddly and very faintly annoying having to be even more careful about targeting those when I had to scroll the whole panel up and down.
The Show/Hide labels are copied from the Show/Hide labels in the Finder, iTunes, Xcode, and other Apple software. I find them less cluttered than disclosure triangles.
Moving them to the left of scroll bars is a good suggestion. I see that Apple do this when scroll bars are set to show “Always” - is that the preference that you’re using (in System Preferences: General)?
I cannot reopen the site I did. I have no idea where my files went. I can see my folder with my index file and resources but can’t access trough Xway. May I know what I’m doing wrong. Thanks.
The Show/Hide labels are copied from the Show/Hide labels in the Finder, iTunes, Xcode, and other Apple software. I find them less cluttered than disclosure triangles.
Moving them to the left of scroll bars is a good suggestion. I see that Apple do this when scroll bars are set to show “Always” - is that the preference that you’re using (in System Preferences: General)?
[Apologies for moderation mistake. I tried to split William’s “reopen site” question into a separate topic and ended up splitting Keith’s message (below)]
Hi Jeremy – no, I generally stick with Apple’s defaults where possible so my setup is more like those people I teach or help out. Scrollbars are set to automatic.
I found that I frequently triggered the scrollbars as I targeted the Show/Hide controls, which hid the right half of them. I had to basically take my fingers off my trackpad for a second for them to disappear. If I don’t wait I can still trigger those, but I have to be that much more precise with my cursor. It also looks a little like a bug when they are partially obscured.
Moving them slightly to the left would definitely help. And if it’s not a HIG violation and y’all agree, I would definitely like to see that whole ‘top bar’ area for each pane be the clickable trigger.
If you can see the index file and resources, you’re looking at the Site folder - which is inside the document package.
The simplest way to reopen your Xway document is to start Xway and choose the document from “Open Recent” in the File menu.
[You could also command-click on the Finder window which shows the Site folder and use the window menu to navigate back to the folder that contains the document.]
If you can see the index file and resources, you’re looking at the Site folder - which is inside the document package.
The simplest way to reopen your Xway document is to start Xway and choose the document from “Open Recent” in the File menu.
[You could also command-click on the Finder window which shows the Site folder and use the window menu to navigate back to the folder that contains the document.]
Hi William,
This forum/mailing list doesn’t seem to support attachments (which helps avoid filling everyone’s email inboxes I presume), so could you put the images online somewhere?
In the meantime, command-click on the title in the Finder window to show the folder path and go TWO levels up, not just one. (Alternatively, hit Command-Up Arrow twice to step up two levels from inside the Site folder.) You should see your Xway document there. Each Xway document is in fact a package and the Site folder is stored within that.
(PS, your queries will be easier to track if you use the New Topic button in the site or send a new email (not a reply) to email@hidden. )
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 06:02 PM, Jeremy Hughes wrote:
The Show/Hide labels are copied from the Show/Hide labels in the Finder, iTunes, Xcode, and other Apple software. I find them less cluttered than disclosure triangles.
I see your point. (And I raise you…
In Keynote – which I happen to have open now – the equivalent interface things for panes within a panel show a disclosure arrow before each pane’s title and no Show/Hide text on the right, similar to the Xway/Freeway Site panel items. In Keynote the titles themselves also work as clickable triggers.
(I find those arrows to be marginally less distracting than text labels, but I totally get that this is my own subjective feeling.)
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