Ok, I’ve poured over the Bric Builder & custom blocs & of course, I have a bunch of questions & comments, so here goes
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Suggest moving Extension Manager to Brics menu - why? - most users will shy away & be afraid to touch anything in Dev menu - it’s just human nature & it’s important that they use it. OR for ease of installing a custom bric - suggest drag & dropping new bric onto Bloc icon to install it.
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Can we have an indicator in Custom Brics Toggle, so we know at a glance whether it’s on or off? Same suggestion for moving to Brics menu.
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Tried to create a new bric by changing some keys in an existing bric in Bric Builder & then compiled w/ unique name to desktop, then used Extension Manager to bring into Blocs - but the Title & Author & other keys reverted to orig stuff. Should we create new brics this way or only use the plus button in top-left of Bric Builder to create new brics?
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How do we access all the various folders of a custom bric? Ie. where are they stored? - would be nice to just use finder to right-click & ‘show package conents’ to add/delete & edit files as we work on a bric.
4b) Related to previous question: Resources tab: Is the top panel for js & css files, ie what goes in ‘includes’ folder (please label) & is the bottom panel for static assets like images, ie. what goes in ‘resources’ folder (please label) ?
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Are you going to have a pane for the edit-mode stuff (js)? Also, would suggest you change this name to ui or edit or something that isn’t confusing, as I can easily see publish stuff being put in this folder by mistake.
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How do we set up bric.css file? Is there a pane I’m missing?
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In HTML, what are custom-bric-id-target=“true” & custom-bric-class-target=“true” ?
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Need control types: Slider w/ option for integers or floating numbers, Color well for assigning colors to anything.
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Dropdown: Would be good to assign a visible ‘title’ to each element that is separate from the ‘value’, Ex: display:block/none, Titles: Show/Hide & Values: block/none
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Button: Need indicator that is has been selected, maybe an outline around it
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Multipart Buttons: with icons, please.
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Icon/Cursors pane: Could you please add the sizes below the name of each one. I assume that icons are shades of white on transparent bg & cursors are black w/ translucent white outline on transparent bg.
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If we use the same titles such as Appearance/Animation have the same color box render to left so it’s uniform across all interfaces.
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Wondering if it might be easier for users if custom brics were a color, such as a blue from the bloc-extension.icns Then users, if looking for custom brics, could scan across white till they see blue.
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I know jQuery is available to published page, what about other libraries like font-awesome that are available in Icon Font Manager?
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And finally, but probably one of the MOST important things is a way to write attribute values out to html/css/js files. Basically a baked in string replacement capability. Maybe Mustache templating script GitHub - janl/mustache.js: Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript or something similar
Thanks, Bill