I'm using Subform 0.0.0+3f2bab9 on macOS version 10.12.1
Edit: I did see this other, closed thread. but I found this particularly confusing and unexpected.
Edit 2: This has also made it into a feature request.
I expected the given control panel to toggle between visible and hidden states, so that I could organize my workspace and not have to see everything at once. Instead all of my settings for that panel were reset to a default state without warning.
Steps to reproduce:
- Select a box
- Click any control panel that is in a closed state by default
- Make changes to that panel's settings
- Close the panel
- Your changes should disappear
Personal thoughts:
On closer inspection I see that the toggle switch turns red, which I guess is supposed to indicate the destructive action, but I don't think it's obvious enough considering it's on the panel's header, rather than next to the setting itself.
Sketch has a similar functionality, but in Sketch you can have multiple instances of a control stacked, for example multiple borders... so there's a need to remove unused or extra items. In Subform, so far as I know at the moment, each control only has one use per box.
Presenting the control as 'gone' is a bit misleading, because these settings still have values – they are just 0, white, or some similar thing. A zeroing/clearing function would be nice, but I think it should be within the panel, available whenever a non default value is entered, and next to the control in question (as there might be multiple control groups per panel) – but I don't think it needs to hide the panel necessarily.
I also don't want to have to always see everything at once, especially if there are more controls added in the future that I'd have to scroll through constantly, so a real panel header toggle would be nice. But toggling the panel / dealing with workspace maybe should be separate from dealing with the controls' values? I'm still stewing on it, thoughts?