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Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« on: February 09, 2020, 07:10:16 PM »
Would it be possible to indent the sub models, strands etc when opening a group? I ask because it would easily identify the end of these Sub entities when more than one group has been opened.
Perhaps a color shade shift of the group and its sub entities that is open.

Just thinking out loud. You guys are doing an amazing job, Thanks

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2020, 05:42:51 AM »
So a bigger indent than it already does?

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2020, 04:00:18 PM »
I agree its there .. but perhaps a tweak is needed? Its close .. see my example ...
Singing Bulbs expands (and indents) to Blue Bulb, if you expand that one it doesnt indent.

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2020, 04:31:29 PM »
We've learned you can't please everyone.  The bigger the indents the more it pushes each level to the right causing some users to need to widen the row heading area and lose screen space.
Everything should indent based on Groups indent to models, models indent to submodels/strands, strands indent to nodes.  Notice that submodels and strands are treated as the same thing inside xLights.  The attached image shows the indents from group -> model -> strand -> nodes

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2020, 05:54:30 PM »
I understand it is impossible to please everyone and I think you guys are doing an excellent job. This is just a suggestion and if you find it something to be benefit, we would like to see it.

Re-reading my post I see I did not clearly convey my thoughts. Apologies.

As you can see in my attachment I have a group of 8 snowflakes. When the group is opened each snow flake is left justified. While the sub models and layers of the "Flake-8" appear to have a single step indent when opened. I was thinking the 8 snowflakes would have a single step indent and when one was opened the layers and sub models would have another single step indent.

The other option I was thinking of that would save the real screen space is a background color change of the models within a group when opened.

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2020, 06:52:23 PM »
Your 8 snowflakes have an indent so that's why I don't get your statement.

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2020, 06:00:51 PM »
Yes sir there is an indent and I see what your point is on this. I had to look at it harder to see it. It just was not obvious to me.
Option to change the view background color cells on opened groups would be nice.

You can ignore this request of indent.

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Re: Indent sub models / Strands on DBL click in Master view
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2020, 05:51:58 AM »
Well I did notice the indent was inconsistent.  If a model had layers it creates the expansion checkbox which seems to push it over further.  Like usual these ideas are not new.  I was wanting something that better differentiates the levels way back in xLights4 the problem then was you couldn't expand the row width.  Now that the row width can be adjusted by the user I could reconsider it.  I always liked the way the LOR grid looked when they expanded and collapsed items it was really clear which items were contained in the group.