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SpaceRay
SpaceRay
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SUGGESTION FF 4.0 GROUPS SWITCH ON/OFF FOR SETTINGS
So I have thought that an easy way to separate settings and activate or desactivate settings according to a group of selected components could be using the FF 4.0 Groups.
I think that one good way and easy to make this would be to use the FF 4.0 Groups and that all the included settings from that groups could be switched ON/OFF if this group is selected and used by the filter, and become desactivated if it is not used. This could be with a simple switch component.
So if you have 3 FF 4.0 groups attached to a switch component, ONLY the settings and controls from ONLY one of this groups would go through the switch component and ONLY this group would be shown in the settings panel
I EXPLAIN NOW WHY THIS COULD BE INTERESTING AND USEFUL
in FF 3.0 ALL the settings that you add to the filter will be shown in the settings panel even if they belong to different parts of excluding option inside the filter, ANYTHING you add as a setting or control component will be added always to the settings panel.
Although this is good, there are sometimes that you wished that this would NOT happen, when you want for example to have 3 possible different effects inside the filter that have different controls each one and they are exclusive to each effect and will not work in the other two, and having them ALL in the settings panel is confusing
I wish that the settings could be hidden when they are not used when using a switch component
From the above example I want that with this filter that have two very different effects and that when going to the settings panel and when you have:
* the switch unchecked it would ONLY show in the settings panel the setttings applied to the RED group of components AND NOT SHOW the settings of the BLUE group
* and when you check on the switch it would ONLY show in the settings panel the settings from the BLUE group and do not show the ones from the RED group.
There is no point of having Mortar and Mortar width settings if you have choosen to use the first effect, as it will do nothing on the first effect and will not work at all, and would be confusing for customizing and knowing what can be used and will work.
And also the opposite, and if you only want the second effect, the others setting from the first group would not work or show any change.
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SpaceRay
SpaceRay
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Perhaps the title of the thread is not very well done or showing what I really mean with this.
I do not want really to have a manual checkbox switch box on each group, ONLY want that the SWITCH component is updated so if a two groups are attached to it, you could be able to decide wich settings and controls go through that switch, if it would be only one of the groups (the one selected) or be both.
Seeing that there has not been any answer yet.
Nobody thinks that this would be great, handy and very useful to have?
I think it would be very good for when you want to have different alternatives and excluding options for your to choose and do not have mixed settings components ALL showing at the same time in the settings panel.
And now with the FF 4.0 groups I think that would be much easier to make than before with FF 3.0 that could be complex and hard to define which components and controls would be needed to hide and wich to show.
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