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tobyscott

Resize Text (Comment or String) with Double Click

Status: New

This idea is somewhat similar to Shrink-Wrap-Structures but for comments and strings

 

The idea is to resize a comment or string to the text by double clicking one of the resize indicators around the box.

This would happen without changing the number of lines or words on each line.

resize double click.png

The process would be resize the horizontal direction of the box until the line layout looks nice (and fits!) then double click the corner to remove the unwanted space.

There could be different resize processes depending on the corner or edge you click eg. double clicking bottom middle resizes to only remove vertical space, top left would resize and shift the text down and right so the bottom right corner remains anchored.

 

There are some other ideas about resizing multi line comment boxes but none were quite as straight forward as this so I made a new post for it.

 

This mechanism is similar to other programs for resizing boxes so it seems like a sensible thing to implement.

2 Comments
fabric
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Yamaeda
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I'd be happy if it worked like Labels, r-click and select Size to text.

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