View and modify splitter hierarchy

[dsavir]

I use Splitter extensively to create resizable GUIs. However, if I create my resizable GUI and then my customer asks me to add parameters in a new pane on the left, I can't add to an existing GUI a splitter in the top of the hierarchy, i.e. a new vertical splitter that all the existing splitters will be on the right of the splitter and a new empty pane on the left. Any splitter I add will be added to the bottom of the existing hierarchy, and there is no way to change this. So to do this I basically need to rebuild the GUI again from scratch.

Another example, if this is my GUI:

I can't add a status bar now, as any horizontal splitter I add will be inside an existing pane, and this can't be modified. However, if this idea were implemented, I could View splitter hierarchy and create a new horizontal splitter at the top of the hierarchy so that I would have my status bar without rewriting the whole thing.

Thanks,

Danielle

[fabric]

Kudos to any idea that improves usability of splitters. For a graphical language LV sure lacks good graphical tools for manipulating the panel...

[QFang]

 Yes, this has bitten me several times!