Re: Deleting a constraint just turns it grey
Re: Deleting a constraint just turns it grey
- Subject: Re: Deleting a constraint just turns it grey
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:14:09 -0600
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Zack Morris wrote:
> Just to play Devil’s advocate, the constraints gray out to an inactive
> state so that you can make a set of base constraints and then
> enable/disable them for various size classes. I think where Apple maybe
> goofed from a UX perspective is that selecting a grayed out constraint
> and hitting delete should delete it completely (perhaps prompting the
> user to confirm if Xcode detects that it’s being used by a different size
> class). But hitting delete does nothing, which forces the user to look
> up the constraint in the side panel and delete it manually.
>
> The current graying out method would be ok if we could list all of the
> disabled constraints in the storyboard so we could delete them. I just
> discovered that entering a “-“ in the search filter box under the scenes
> lists all of the constraints so we can do a visual inspection and
> command-click all of the grayed out ones in order to hit delete.
> Hopefully this helps someone, I agree that this and a few other UX
> features could use improvement.
Please do file bug reports at https://bugreport.apple.com for behaviors
you think are incorrect or which you don’t understand!
--Kyle Sluder
>
> Zack Morris
>
> > On Jan 28, 2016, at 6:46 PM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > There is another place where you actually have to select it and delete it. It’s in one of the inspectors, I think. Either that or select the grayed out constraint and try deleting that.
> >
> > I agree that’s it’s pretty idiotic to use delete as disable, then delete.
> >
> > Apple needs to stick with its own clearly defined standards rather than conditionally reimplementing the wheel in a substandard manner.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> It seems that if I delete a constraint (in the current Xcode, 7.2) on a UIView, from the inspector panel, that the constraint turns a disabled color, but remains in the list. I can't select it.
> >>
> >> However, I can select it from the outline view on the left, and delete it properly from there.
> >>
> >> What's up with this behavior?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rick Mann
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> >>
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