Please left-justify labels everywhere

I like to label my palettes and presets. Sometimes my labels are longer than will fit on some of the smaller controls like tombstones, direct selects, and the ML control. On the tombstones they truncate left-justified, on direct selects they appear to be truncated to a fixed length then centered and wrapped over a couple of lines. On the ML control the algorithm appears to be to center the entire text across the face of the button truncating to the left and right.

Is it possible to pick one truncate/format algorithm and stick with it? My preference would be for either the tombstone algorithm or the direct select algorithm. They both make it easier for the programmer to make the truncated labels unique. The ML control algorithm doesn't work for long labels and it is too difficult to guess which part of the label will be visible.

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  • Another thing while I'm whinging about layouts:

    The ML Control filters out undefined/unused palette numbers, which I like. The Direct Select Module leaves gaps in the layout. I would prefer to reduce paging as much as possible but I can appreciate that others might want to make use of gaps for grouping. Perhaps the [Format] option could be applied to direct selects? Perhaps this will be resolved by user-definable layouts and isn't worth the bother.

     

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous in reply to sk8rs_dad

    We are working on the justifying consistency issue.  It should continue to get better in future releases.

     

    We are also playing with various ideas for solutions to the gap issue as well. 

     

    Thanks for your feedback.

     

    -D

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