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20kdc / gabien-app-r48

(Possibly buggy) application for game making, modding, and datamining, with a general focus around game engines compatible with the RPG Maker series.
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Editing event commands is hard #40

Open rohkea opened 5 years ago

rohkea commented 5 years ago

Editing event commands in Android is painful because it has a lot of small buttons (in fact, all of them are too narrow) that are hard to press. It’s not ideal on desktop, too: ‘Add @ N’ buttons clutter the interface. Adding a lot of buttons was supposed to be usable in Androids, but I feel like it might not work well in either case.

I suggest moving the ‘-’, ‘Delete’/‘Cancel’, ‘Paste array’, ‘Add @ N’ and perhaps ‘Copy array’ to a submenu. This will make the display less cluttered and will make it harder to press wrong buttons with fingers on Androids.

A common desktop metaphor is showing a menu by left-click. The menus are usually vertical with things being represented by text.

Common Android metaphors are showing a menu either by dragging the object left/right, or by long-pressing it. Menus are usually horizontal, with actions indicated by icons. Here are some examples. However, some apps seem to use vertical menus (e.g. Discord)

20kdc commented 5 years ago

Current status: The 'saner submenu' stuff has been added in preparation for the increase in submenus, but the actual UI changes haven't hit event editing yet

20kdc commented 5 years ago

Update: Minor UI changes have hit event editing, but it's not complete.

20kdc commented 5 years ago

There are now lots less smaller buttons, and you use the selection system to perform deletion.

20kdc commented 5 years ago

Marking as "Attempted fix in master" given last comments. I'm not totally sure what to do here...