Toolbar button separator disappearing
Steps to reproduce:
- Show a toolbar, for example "Drafting"
- Stretch out toolbar box so that all the buttons fit on one line.
- Note that there are some separators between sections of buttons
- Make the toolbar tall enough to fit several rows of buttons
- Shrink the width so that some buttons are forced onto a second line.
- When the second button jumps down to the second line, all of the separators disappear.
Sorry if this is already known, it's just been bugging me. Thanks!
Trygve
Tags: button, separator, toolbar
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Pascal Golay on -
Hi Trygve - it is known, and is in fact by design since the separators are unlikely to end up in reasonable locations when the toolbar is resized- we found that the separators became worse than useless except by chance.
-Pascal
pascal@mcneel.com
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Permalink Reply by Trygve Wastvedt on -
Thanks for the fast reply, as always!
This seems strange to me though. If I have buttons in multiple rows, I still read the buttons as rows, and so a separator is still meaningful. I imagine it would get weird if the toolbar was much taller and narrow, so that I start to read the buttons as columns. In that case a separator would indeed be confusing, unless a horizontal bar was also an option.
As it is, though, I have a wide toolbar with buttons in two rows. It seems that visible separators would still be useful in this instance, especially if I only have a few buttons in the second row.
Trygve
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