Having buttons that can be resized down to LED widget size an up to full screen size would add a lot of flexibility and I wouldn’t imagine that it would be a massive amount of development work. This would also allow people to create their own radio button sets, which is something that I would find useful.
Are there any plans to change the way that the background grid works? This also has quite a large role to play in the way that projects can be laid out and changes in this area could open-up more possibilities in app screen design.
The current 4x4 “Lego brick” is the smallest level of granularity in the grid, and corresponds to the size of the LED widget (is this why a smaller LED widget will never happen?).
Changes to the way in which widgets “snap to” the grid - possibly allowing the user to choose between the current setting, a more precise setting, or totally free floating - would give more flexibility. Maybe even allowing widgets to overlap and having a “send to back” and “bring to front” functionality - at least in the screen design mode - would also creat lots of possibilities.
If we did have a finer granularity of the background grid then we could have horizontal and vertical dividers, and ‘container’ boxes to put widgets in to separate them on screen.
A few small tweaks to the colour schemes that allow the screen background colour to be identical to the widget background colour (if the user wants it to be) would also make some projects look more professional and would certainly be needed if we had totally unconstrained placing of widgets on the background.
I don’t need/expect responses to these suggestions, I’m just throwing a few ideas in the mix for you guys to kick around.
Pete.