Ion 2.0 Magic Sheet Ideas

Love the Magic Sheets,

Just a couple of items I would like to see:

A> If I Move a Pallet to a Different Number, Have it Update any Target Id's that Reference it.

B> To the Color Menu, Add a way that when a Fixture(s) is selected, It "Highlights" the button if the Fixture has parameters in the palette.

C> Add a "Table"  Box that can display Custom Q-list / live table / Color List / etc....

D> add a tool, such as photoshop's eyedropper, to quickly copy Color/Size/? Attributes from one object to others without disturbing the target/id.

E> With the Tab Object, Make the bottom Border Optional. That would make it easier to build a "Folder", instead of using another rectangle to Hide a section of the  border.

  • C> Add a "Table" Box that can display Custom Q-list / live table / Color List / etc....

     

    please add this.

  • First off, I love the magic sheet functionality.  Been playing with it a lot this week, and it has a lot of power.  That being said, it definately seems a little raw still!  Heres a few more ideas:

    • Duplicate array and multiple selections, if I have a row of 5 buttons, and I want to add 4 more rows, I can't just select all the buttons in the row and create a 5 row x 1 column array, I need to copy the row four times and then try to space it or copy one button, space it, and create an array again.
    • Speaking of spacing, more clarity on what the "spacing" in create array actually means would be helpful, I've just been guessing at numbers, but I'm not sure what the spacing is relative too, or what "1" spacing unit equals.
    • Finer placement of lines of text, the 9 position grid is a great start, but I'd love to nudge a line here and there on tightly packed magic sheets.
    • Aligning items horizontally/vertically gets a bit confused when theres a grid.  I'd love to be able to select a 4x5 selection of buttons and align all the rows within.  Perhaps an "Align Array" option?
    • Click+Drag insert to set a custom size.  If I'm putting a rectangle in as a background, it would be nice to click and drag in one operation to set the size of the rectangle, not to have to click to insert it, then grab the handle and drag to resize it.
    • More 'undo' control.  I keep trying to ctrl+z when I do something dumb, but it doesn't do anything.  I suspect the idea is to avoid filling the undo stack with small operations, but undo is a bit less useful when I have to manually create a savepoint before using it. 
    • "Select Similar" tool?  I'd love to be able to select all the lights that have a parcan symbol, for example, but not grab my ministrips or lekos.  Extra points if I could limit it to a specific area of the magic sheet.
    • Oh, and a big one.  Word wrapping.  Would love to be able to have longer labels that wrapped onto multiple lines in some of these boxes.

     



    [edited by: hydrogen at 10:11 AM (GMT -6) on Sat, Apr 6 2013]
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