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Separate Size property from position

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Any elements with dimensions, would be great to separate pos & siz in properties, so you don't have to carefully point your mouse to highlight the size section only in windows.

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Michael Angeles (Official Rep) January 19, 2011 17:22

I'll add your request, nadeembakhshi. Sorry it's annoying. It's an edge feature, so we try not to draw too much attention to it, but we'll consider separating if possible.

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- Nadeem Bakhsh January 19, 2011 17:30
  
  hmm... i use it all the time, and iterate mockups loads, helps so much to have pixel perfect mockups for the later stages of designing and coding. while rough mockups the software is perfect, reducing keystrokes/clicks (a bit of its own user testing on the software itself), would make it quicker for us to use and therefore expand its uses... :) hope you guys agree
  
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- Jenni Merrifield January 20, 2011 01:01
  
  I also use the position & size functionality all the time and agree that it would be far more convenient if they were managed separately. (and even more convenient if width was separate from length was separate from x-position from y-position. (i.e., four separate little numeric text fields rather than one combined one.)
  
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- Dave May 26, 2011 01:40
  
  Separating the fields would not be an edge case for me: it would be a big help.
  
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- Michael Angeles (Official Rep) May 26, 2011 12:21
  
  Agreed. Still in our to do list.
  
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I'll add your request, nadeembakhshi. Sorry it's annoying. It's an edge feature, so we try not to draw too much attention to it, but we'll consider separating if possible.

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Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni (Founder and CEO) June 02, 2011 08:23

I just had 10 minutes to do this, try it out: http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/...

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Nadeem Bakhsh June 02, 2011 09:37

Thank you! Tested it out on the web version, it'll keep the mockup mood going :)

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Cristian Pascu June 02, 2011 17:19

Have you noticed that you can move the Properties Inspector window while the textinputs are opened, and the textinputs stay opened? Not a big deal, I guess.

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- Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni (Founder and CEO) June 02, 2011 19:44
  
  Hi Cristian! Yes I did notice, but deemed it "not worth fixing for now" :)
  
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Have you noticed that you can move the Properties Inspector window while the textinputs are opened, and the textinputs stay opened? Not a big deal, I guess.

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Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni (Founder and CEO) June 14, 2011 09:12

This is now live: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/201...

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This is now live: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2011/06/14/partialpngexport/

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Dave June 15, 2011 18:28

Peldi,

This is a great step in the right direction. How hard would it be to separate the four values into separate boxes, making it even easier to address the individual values?

And, for those of us who prefer to stay on the keyboard once we've started typing, it would be ultra sweet to be able to tab from field to field, instead of having to go from keyboard to mouse and back and forth for each field. We'd use return, as at present, to save the last value entered and get out of tabby mode.

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- Win7Guru June 15, 2011 18:33
  
  @Dave, you have a great point. The ability to press TAB to focus on different fields would be excellent. I will add one better, pressing Shift+Tab will reverse the direction that the TAB is navigating to (Right to Left) default would be (Left to Right). I will add a feature request for this and link to your idea for kudos.
  
  Update: Here is the link http://getsatisfaction.com/balsamiq/t...
  
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Peldi, This is a great step in the right direction. How hard would it be to separate the four values into separate boxes, making it even easier to address the individual values? And, for those of us who prefer to stay on the keyboard once we've started typing, it would be ultra sweet to be able to tab from field to field, instead of having to go from keyboard to mouse and back and forth for each field. We'd use return, as at present, to save the last value entered and get out of tabby mode. <a href=http://s3.amazonaws.com/satisfaction-production/s3_images/514930/inspector_posx_posy_sizeh_sizev.png><img src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/satisfaction-production/s3_images/514930/inspector_posx_posy_sizeh_sizev_inline.png alt='' /></a>

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Michael Angeles (Official Rep) June 15, 2011 21:14

I'll add your request to our to do list for consideration, Dave.

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- Win7Guru June 15, 2011 21:15
  
  That is awesome, word of mouth really does work.
  
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I'll add your request to our to do list for consideration, Dave.

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