[Pythoncard-devel] large numbers of widgets on single screen

[<bra...@om...>]

Some of the screens on my app need to have a large number of widgets, and 
I'm
finding this situation difficult to manage in  propertyEditor and 
multiPropertyEditor.

I really want to be able to alphabetize the list of widgets, but even if 
that
feature existed, it would screw up the tab order.

Not only would it be nice to be able to alphabetize, it would be nice to 
order
by type of widget. 

Why? Because it's difficult to locate the widget I need to work with. It 
doesn't matter
that I have a consistent naming convention--lacking no consistent sorting 
order, I have
a lot of trouble locating the desired widget in the list. On some screens, 
the list is just
too long.

Why not just click the desired widget? Sometimes that's not an option, for
instance when a staticBox is in the way, or the widget is invisible.

I really think tab order should be a separate list from the list of all 
widgets.
After all, not every widget is tab-focusable (StaticText, StaticBox, 
StaticLine).
And making that separation will allow us to refine the MultiPropertyEditor 
GUI
to do nice things like widget sorting.


Brad Allen
IT Desktop Support
Omnicom Management Services
Dallas, TX
http://www.omsdal.com