Fix editor playfield not being centered correctly #16327
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This has come up multiple times, with mappers citing that they have muscle memory for mapping based on the centre of the playfield being in the centre of the window. The original plan was to have a second toolbar on the right hand side of the screen to balance the padding, but we're not at that point yet. Easiest solution is to do what stable does and allow the left-hand toolbar items to overlap the playfield underneath it. In edge cases where the user is running at an aspect ratio that causes overlaps, they can choose to collapse the toolbars down. We can probably work on this UI/UX a bit more as we update designs to be more friendly to such cases.
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The one worry I have is 4:3 aspect ratio, which is somewhat a thing of the past but I think there may still be people who use that - here's 1280x1024, for instance:
I'm not sure if there is any chance to get a hit object small enough wherein it can get stuck behind the toolboxes though, so maybe not a big deal? I'd think that most people will be using widescreen screens at this day and age, although it's always difficult to tell... Going to tentatively approve but wait for a response to the above. |
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You can see something quite similar happening in stable at 5:4:
I don't think this is of huge concern for now. As I said above, I'd rather improve the UX (having the ability from the side toolbar areas to retract into the side of the screen, or using tab to toggle them on/off completely) rather than adding special case logic to ensure no overlap. |
This has come up multiple times, with mappers citing that they have muscle memory for mapping based on the centre of the playfield being in the centre of the window.
The original plan was to have a second toolbar on the right hand side of the screen to balance the padding, but we're not at that point yet. Easiest solution is to do what stable does and allow the left-hand toolbar items to overlap the playfield underneath it.
In edge cases where the user is running at an aspect ratio that causes overlaps, they can choose to collapse the toolbars down. We can probably work on this UI/UX a bit more as we update designs to be more friendly to such cases.