"Andy Hefner" ahefner@gmail.com writes:
Alternately, I've been thinking it would be useful to integrate the inspector into the listener, so that you can immediately start clicking your way through returned values.
By expanding parts of the accept result in-place, as if there was a Clouseau embedded in the pane? That would be useful; in fact, that's half of my Clouseau use cases. Also, it would make for great screenshots!
I hadn't considered the interaction with the select gesture (lacking working subform accepting until recently, it wasn't much of an issue). I think this is a cool idea, but requires some decisions be made as to what UI gestures are used.
Why not just use a composite gesture such as M-button1, or perhaps the middle mouse button? Or maybe we could consider inspection a form of a description, and use the :describe gesture. I think I prefer M-button1.
Does anyone else think this is a cool idea?
Yes, it's a really great idea! The Listener is an important tool, so it should have as many of these neat features as possible.