LC-NAVRAD

Extending and improving the LC Nav bar

2.5.4, 2.5.3, 2.5.2, 2.5.1 2022.09.18 (mikey)

• fix docs for directly assigning a path to an item
• iconZoom also needs to be checked to see if it exists during onLoad()
• apparently onSave() preserves var types, so when you pull them back with OnLoad() you don't have to parse booleans, for example, and if you do, you will throw an error.

2.5.0 2022.09.17 (mikey)

• Developer can directly assign the svg path to an item without having to deal with the name of the icon (which causes it to be looked up and then overwrite the path) using the array:

put the itemArray of widget id 1003 into aTest
put svgPath into aTest[1]["manual_path"]
put svgPath2 into aTest[1]["manual_hilited_path"]

2.4.4 2022.09.16 (mikey)

• Added traditionalMargins property (boolean, not visible in the property inspector). If true, left and right margins are applied to all items in the widget. If false then the left margin is only applied to the leftmost item and the right margin to the rightmost item.

2.4.3 2022.09.15 (Ralph)

• Bumped icon zoom min and max to 50 and 150
• icon zoom default 100

2.4.2 2022.09.15 (mikey)

• added min, max, step for zoom
• added min for margins

2.4.1 2022.09.15 (mikey)

• added a "step" to the margins

2.4.0 2022.09.15 (mikey)

• added margin properties

2.3.0 2022.09.12 (Ralph)

• Added icon zoom
• Make several properties invisible in the PI

2.2.0 2022.09.01 (Ralph A Dimola, aka RAD)

I took a major stab at LCB and created a new widget based on the navbar widget. I have made 2 changes to the navbar and call it navrad. It does not modify the stock navbar. With almost no docs it was a challenge. There were so many unknowns I got a few giant headaches. It adds 4 new properties(iconFill , autoRADHilite , preHilitedItem , preHilitedItemName) and 1 new message( preHiliteChanged). I updated the documentation so the new properties and message show in the dictionary with example(search for "navrad" or just "rad"). One thing I ran into was that I had to call the "autohilite" property autoRADHilite because using any existing property causes a confilict that I could not get around without sufficient docs. It does show in the property inspector as "auto hilite". These changes allow 1)enlarge/center the icon if there is no label 2)intercept a selection before it is hilited and make a choice to hilite and send the stock hiliteChanged message (or not). Why no label? For one social media icons don’t need labels. Why a pre message? Someone suggested it and I thought it was a great idea. Backwards compatible with existing navbar LCS code. The was an auto sizing to card width request. I will look to see if I can do it without more docs(or help).

2.1.0 (LC/2021)

Base version - the LC Navigation bar that we are modifying

Inside, it looks like it's the same as the 2.0.0 version from 2015-2016, with just an updated copyright since LC went closed source. To keep the version numbering consistent, since hopefully we'll get this rolled into LC's nav bar, I'm updating the version from the one that Ralph put in his original post on the How list, titled NAVRAD was: lcb missing manual