Separators

Would be possible to add controls separators?

Sometimes (not sometimes. Let' s sat "most of the cases") the controls can be separated in groups, depending on what they do or what part of the filter they work about.

I sometimes add some "special control" (I connect a checkbox to an unused switch input plug) that has no practical use but that only describe the following controls.

For example, if in a filter I have 10 controls working on a polygon, it may be good to collect them someway.
I may add a checkbox control titled "---- Polygon Controls----" just before the first polygon control.
This way I make easier for the users to understand that the following controls are about that polygon.

Anyway this is clearly a waste.
The maximum amount of controls that we can put in a filter is 100.
If I add 20 description controls, it means that I cannot have more than 80 useful controls in my filter.

Other times I put numbers. As "01 Polygon Size", "02 Polygon Size".

But clearly it would be much better if we could simply add a separator.
It could be simply a long line.

Is it possible?

It is something that most of the browsers do in the bookmarks field.
We can add a link.
We can add a folder.
We can add a separator.

Here you can see also how I separate the fields : "Background", "Circle 1", etc.
But even we had just a simple line, it would be ok.

YES! Yes! Yes! this has been already requested to have a way to separate control in the filter since 2010, already 8 years ago, and never happened until now in August 2018

Although this would be really very useful, helpful and be really great to make better filters and more user friendly, it seems that this will not happen, at least soon, and may be have to way many years more.

Although I really do not understand why is not included already, because as far as I know, is not nothing complex, just a simple line with text to separate controls, and even I would agree to have just one simple line without text.

Another alternative to a separator is to be able to make groups inside the controls

2010 - User Interface > Organizational Components

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Burt wrote: It might be nice to have a few organizational components when presenting the user control interface (the controls the end user sees when using a filter). For example a simple line/separator component that you could add and move with the "Order of Controls" to separate groups of controls. Or similarly maybe a 'frame' that could expand or collapse a group of controls. This could be useful for some filters that have a lot of component properties exposed to the user. So you might add all tiling options to one of these containers with title 'Tile Controls' and make the interface neater.

2013 - Suggestion - FF Setting Categories

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Leo Fernevak wrote: With Setting Categories, filter settings will now belong to specific categories: 0) - No Category (Default for old filters without this function) 1) - Category 1 2) - Category 2 3) - Category 3 ... Etc...

2015 - Component to add a line To separate and organize filters

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SpaceRay wrote: i wonder if there could be a new component that could be used to add only a text line to the filter settings so you could write a custom short text to separate parts of a filter and be able able then to group parts of it and separate settings by their purpose

2016 - Have a SEPARATOR component to separate settings when making filters

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SpaceRay wrote: Request of a simple component with just a line of text, so it would be something very easy to do, like the checkbox component, but without the checkbox I feel that there is really missing a very simple and easy to add SEPARATOR COMPONENT so this can be used to mark areas in the settings , it can be a text based line, so you can use either dashes to make a line, or put text to divide and name a settings part so it could be more easier to a FF user identify the possible different parts of the settings that may be excluding

I do not understand why in already 10 YEARS since this was suggested is still not available, this should be really simple to add, is the same than the Checkbox, but without the checkbox mark that appears on settings.

I do not think that there is any technical problem adding this to the components

So I wonder why is still not available?

If this would be something that would need much code to do and would require much work I would understand it, but as said this is already done in the Checkbox control that you put the text you want and ONLY is needed to remove the Checkbox that appears in settings

You then can be able to connect this new component to the Switch component and then use it in the Order of controls