Gdevelop: newIde - ability to set action points/ mask points by clicking on the preview instead of typing x/y

[blurymind]

Description

Setting action points or colision mask points in the new ide is a bit cumbersome in the newide at the moment. You can't just click with your mouse on the location where you want to plant a point. Instead you can only enter numeric values

Solution suggested

A more intuitive option to have is to:

Be able to select a point row in the pointeditor - to be active and then click with the mouse in the point preview window to set the location of the point (radio or checkbox button?)
Keep the numerical input - but also allow to simply click to set location - as it is a quicker/more intuitive way to do it

I was actually wondering wether to try to add this, but wasn't sure if it is already planned by @4ian and he has a specific design in mind, but that design requires something else to be implemented first

[4ian]

It's indeed a bit cumbersome right now.

I'd like to have this but haven't plan anything in the short term. Any improvement is welcome :)

I guess the simplest design would be that, when a text field is focused for X or Y coordinate, then clicking on the preview will move the point at the mouse position.
Another similar way to do it is to use checkboxes to be able to select a point - may make the fact that the point is selected and that an action is possible (clicking to move the point) more clear and discoverable.

For both solutions I think we still need a small explanation text (<EmptyMessage> component) to tell that points can be moved by selecting them and clicking on the preview.

[blurymind]

@4ian that is a good idea! Instead of adding a checkbox or radio button - just be able to click and drag the actual points to the location would be more ellegant

That could be a problem when we have overlapping pints though

I might give this a try after getting thenew piskel stuff ready :)

Should we select one point to be active and click anywhere on the preview to set its location? (radiobox)
or
use tick boxes - that would allow setting the location of multiple points with one click (all ticked)
or
Click drag to set location of any point
or
maybe a combination?

was wondering if the code can be reused for the mask editor

[4ian]

Click drag may be the more obvious to anyone, but not sure if it's really easy to do.
Moving multiple points to do seem like a really useful use case. I even think that it will confuse users and make people move multiple points without noticing and frustrate most users doing this mistake. So let's keep a single point with a radiobox if you go this way :)

[zatsme]

Most guis I've used seem to allow to set points by clicking and then
joining the points in a clockwise direction. To move a point you click and
drag and to add a new point you click space.

To make it easy, why not have an add, modify and clear check boxes? You
would also be able to reorder points by dragging the numbers up or down the
list.

Zat..

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, 4:11 pm Florian Rival, [e-mail]
wrote:

Click drag may be the more obvious to anyone, but not sure if it's really
easy to do.
Moving multiple points to do seem like a really useful use case. I even
think that it will confuse users and make people move multiple points
without noticing and frustrate most users doing this mistake. So let's keep
a single point with a radiobox if you go this way :)

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[Oneil974]

GD4 drag and drop was working well and in a very simple way, so I think it would be good to have a similar tool.
But for me a problem is persisting with big pictures for scroll over during editing. And now in GD5 big pictures generate a bug and picture is completly outside of canvas limit.
Collision mask is no more at the right position.

[4ian]

Hey 👋 I've put this issue on the roadmap (so that anyone can vote for it!) there: https://trello.com/c/TUhmcpaA/73-add-ability-to-set-action-points-mask-points-by-clicking-on-the-preview-instead-of-typing-x-y

I'm closing this issue as open issues on Github is now be dedicated to bugs only :) (But it's still possible to continue the discussion on this issue even if it's closed)

[4ian]

I've worked on this and this will be available in the next version: https://github.com/4ian/GD/issues/616#issuecomment-418898018

[blurymind]

Thank you @4ian !! :)

[zatsme]

Can't wait to try it out 😁