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RENN

Icon Editor > Glyphs > ViewButton

Status: Declined

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Include view modes 'Tile View' & 'Details View'.

 

IconEditor-Modification.png

 

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SteenSchmidt
Trusted Enthusiast

What do these proposed view modes do?

 

/Steen

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RENN
Member

Hi Steen,

 

its impossible to understand the glyph-names, without selecting/clicking on each glyph one after another. 'Filter glyphs by keyword' field doesn't make any sense untill understanding all the available glyphs by name.

 

In the proposed 'Details View', the glyphs appear on the left side followed by glyph-name on the right side, just like files and folders appear in windows explorer. This helps to familiarize with the glyph names, after this we can use the fiter by keyword function.

 

regards

Renn

 

 

 

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muks
Proven Zealot

What is the use in the view anyway?

PNR
Member
Member

I like this idea! (But you should have described the feature) I like it because searching for an appropriate icon can be such a pain. Also searching icons in that small window is very tedious when you try to find a specific icon you can't remember the name for. So detailed view seems very helpful to learn names.

RENN
Member

iconeditor_modify2.png

exactly PNR .  I hope the above image explains the feature. i dont think i can edit the original 'Idea post'. if i start a new thread with both images will it be 'duplicate post'?

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SteenSchmidt
Trusted Enthusiast

Perhaps it would be useful with different views, but not to solve the problem you describe. You already have a feature in the icon editor that lets you find a glyph, the problem is that you don't know what you should search for.

 

Instead of an easier way to learn the current insufficient names, that dev time would be better spent assigning more intuitive names to the glyphs, or maybe even tags so multiple search strings could return the same glyph. Touched upon in this idea for instance: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Icon-Editor-Better-Glyph-File-Names/idi-p/2012762

 

And then the icon editor is open source as well, so it'd be possible for you to implement a better glyph view yourself.

 

/Steen

CLA, CTA, CLED & LabVIEW Champion
Darren
Proven Zealot
Status changed to: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 4 kudos within 4 years after posting will be automatically declined.