What I'd like to see in Web Designer

[jon spain]

Yeah, it weas a bit much to expect but I'm grateful for the speed and courtesy with which my request was handled, awesome, I'll look at it anyway as an alternative to NOF

[nickydude]

The ability to switch on / off the underline on text links per link as well as for the whole site like you have now.

[steve.ledger]

Why not just disable underlined links site-wide and then manually underline those you want underlined?? (with a line)

[nickydude]

Because.. er... it.. er *ahem* didn't occur to me... *whistle*.

[nickydude]

When clicking on a group of objects can you tell whether it's soft grouped or not? Perhaps colouring the four corner handles, say red, could indicate the group is soft grouped.

[Soquili]

Nicky the status line tells many things about the selected objects. See attached image.

[covoxer]

look at the status bar (at the bottom of the WD window). It constantly says what is currently selected.

edit: you beat me a 1 minute Bill!

[nickydude]

Doh, I should really think about these things before posting shouldn't I!

[nickydude]

Just a little note about putting things in the header (when it's implemented). I have huge amounts of code that go into the header, like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
 
var fadeimages=new Array()
//SET IMAGE PATHS. Extend or contract array as needed
fadeimages[0]=["images/resizedlogos/caribbean.png", "", ""] //plain image syntax
fadeimages[1]=["images/resizedlogos/charlieshift.png", "", ""] //image with link syntax
fadeimages[2]=["images/resizedlogos/madladlogo.png", "", ""] //image with link and target syntax
fadeimages[3]=["images/resizedlogos/nenedigital.png", "", ""] //plain image syntax
fadeimages[4]=["images/resizedlogos/scanddib.png", "", ""] //plain image syntax
var fadebgcolor="#e6ebff"

////NO need to edit beyond here/////////////
 
var fadearray=new Array() //array to cache fadeshow instances
var fadeclear=new Array() //array to cache corresponding clearinterval pointers
 
var dom=(document.getElementById) //modern dom browsers
var iebrowser=document.all
 
function fadeshow(theimages, fadewidth, fadeheight, borderwidth, delay, pause, displayorder){
this.pausecheck=pause
this.mouseovercheck=0
this.delay=delay
this.degree=10 //initial opacity degree (10%)
this.curimageindex=0
this.nextimageindex=1
fadearray[fadearray.length]=this
this.slideshowid=fadearray.length-1
this.canvasbase="canvas"+this.slideshowid
this.curcanvas=this.canvasbase+"_0"
if (typeof displayorder!="undefined")
theimages.sort(function() {return 0.5 - Math.random();}) //thanks to Mike (aka Mwinter) :)
this.theimages=theimages
this.imageborder=parseInt(borderwidth)
this.postimages=new Array() //preload images
for (p=0;p<theimages.length;p++){
this.postimages[p]=new Image()
this.postimages[p].src=theimages[p][0]
}
 
var fadewidth=fadewidth+this.imageborder*2
var fadeheight=fadeheight+this.imageborder*2
 
if (iebrowser&&dom||dom) //if IE5+ or modern browsers (ie: Firefox)
document.write('<div id="master'+this.slideshowid+'" style="position:relative;width:'+fadewidth+'px;height:'+fadeheight+'px;overflow:hidden;"><div id="'+this.canvasbase+'_0" style="position:absolute;width:'+fadewidth+'px;height:'+fadeheight+'px;top:0;left:0;filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.alpha(opacity=10);opacity:0.1;-moz-opacity:0.1;-khtml-opacity:0.1;background-color:'+fadebgcolor+'"></div><div id="'+this.canvasbase+'_1" style="position:absolute;width:'+fadewidth+'px;height:'+fadeheight+'px;top:0;left:0;filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.alpha(opacity=10);opacity:0.1;-moz-opacity:0.1;-khtml-opacity:0.1;background-color:'+fadebgcolor+'"></div></div>')
else
document.write('<div><img name="defaultslide'+this.slideshowid+'" src="'+this.postimages[0].src+'"></div>')
 
if (iebrowser&&dom||dom) //if IE5+ or modern browsers such as Firefox
this.startit()
else{
this.curimageindex++
setInterval("fadearray["+this.slideshowid+"].rotateimage()", this.delay)
}
}

function fadepic(obj){
if (obj.degree<100){
obj.degree+=10
if (obj.tempobj.filters&&obj.tempobj.filters[0]){
if (typeof obj.tempobj.filters[0].opacity=="number") //if IE6+
obj.tempobj.filters[0].opacity=obj.degree
else //else if IE5.5-
obj.tempobj.style.filter="alpha(opacity="+obj.degree+")"
}
else if (obj.tempobj.style.MozOpacity)
obj.tempobj.style.MozOpacity=obj.degree/101
else if (obj.tempobj.style.KhtmlOpacity)
obj.tempobj.style.KhtmlOpacity=obj.degree/100
else if (obj.tempobj.style.opacity&&!obj.tempobj.filters)
obj.tempobj.style.opacity=obj.degree/101
}
else{
clearInterval(fadeclear[obj.slideshowid])
obj.nextcanvas=(obj.curcanvas==obj.canvasbase+"_0")? obj.canvasbase+"_0" : obj.canvasbase+"_1"
obj.tempobj=iebrowser? iebrowser[obj.nextcanvas] : document.getElementById(obj.nextcanvas)
obj.populateslide(obj.tempobj, obj.nextimageindex)
obj.nextimageindex=(obj.nextimageindex<obj.postimages.length-1)? obj.nextimageindex+1 : 0
setTimeout("fadearray["+obj.slideshowid+"].rotateimage()", obj.delay)
}
}
...
...

So a nice big window (may be resizeable), unlike the placeholder window, would be ideal.

Note: The code is twice as long but you're only allowed 5000 characters on the forum.

[StevenWWinters]

Just a little note about putting things in the header (when it's implemented). I have huge amounts of code that go into the header, like this:

I agree about the need to edit <head></head> content.

However, in this case I would reduce it to a simple reference to an included file in the form of:

<script src="/js/myjscript.js" type="text/javascript"></script>