Gathering User Experience: edited object default property

[Crimson Wizard]

We are looking for users opinion on what properties are edited first most often in AGS.
There is a way to make them selected on the property panel when you open the object for editing. Thus you can immediately see that property on screen (if the list is so long that it requires scrolling) and also start typing property value right away.

If you have any ideas on that, please state it here.

I suggest making a table like this:

Type	Property
General Settings	Game Name
Character	Name
Walkable Area	Area specific view

Etc

[ChamberOfFear]

Full list:

Type	Property
GUI
Form	BackgroundImage
Button	Text
Inventory	CharacterID
Label	Text
ListBox	Font
Slider	Value
TextBox	Font
WindowEdge	Image
TextWindow	Padding
Audio
Clip	DefaultVolume
Folder	DefaultVolume
Type	VolumeReductionWhileSpeechPlaying
Room
Nothing	Image
Object	Image
Hotspot	Description
WalkableArea	AreaSpecificView
WalkBehind	Baseline
Region	LightLevel
Misc
General Settings	Game Name
Colours	Colours
Sprite	Resolution
Text parser	Word
Lip sync	Type
Inventory items	Image
Dialog	Name
Views	Name
Character	Name
Cursor	Image
Font	Name
Script	Name

[Crimson Wizard]

I see that no one is really interested in checking this.
Personally I do not have any objections.

ChamberOfFear, if you would just update your pull request to match this table (there's at least one change you did here - the default property for General Settings), I will merge it.

[Radiant]

I'd be happy to check this, I hadn't seen the thread before. I can write up a list tonight if you like, although of course it's going to be slightly different so we may need a third person as tie breaker

[ChamberOfFear]

I'll wait then

[Radiant]

Here's my list,

Full list:

Type	Property
GUI
Form	Z-Order
Button	Image
Inventory	CharacterID
Label	Text
ListBox	TextColorNumber
Slider	HandleImage
TextBox	TextColorNumber
WindowEdge	Image
Audio
Clip	BundlingType
Folder	DefaultBundlingType
Type	VolumeReductionWhileSpeechPlaying
Room
Nothing	Description
Object	Image
Hotspot	Description
WalkableArea	ScalingLevel
WalkBehind	Baseline
Region	LightLevel
Misc
General Settings	Enable Debug Mode
Sprite	Resolution
Text parser	Word
Lip sync	DefaultFrame
Inventory items	Image
Dialog	Name
Views	Name
Character	StartingRoom
Cursor	Image
Font	OutlineStyle
Script	Name

[ChamberOfFear]

I was able to implement every suggestion made by Radiant except the following:

Type	Property
GUI
Form	Z-Order
Room
Object	Image

I'm unable to figure out why, in case of GUI > Form > Z-Order it might be because Z-Order is not a property belonging to the class GUI. I tried setting Z-Order anyways, however when I do that Z-Order overrides every other GUI component's DefaultProperty. There is also a class NormalGUI that inherits from GUI and actually has Z-Order as a Property, so I tried setting DefaultProperty there, but the same problem occurs.

For Room > Object > Image I have no clue at all to why it doesn't work, it just doesn't seem to trigger and keeps the same DefaultPropertyValue as Room > Nothing.

These are minor losses however so maybe we could live without them? If anyone wants to try and figure it out the code is here https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/pull/228