When people usually mention a wysiwyg editor it is to be able to place the cards.
Actually making the cards is usually not a part of it.
Whenever you start to move to GUI from text you lose flexibility on use cases and add complexity on maintaining the code.
The whole idea of cards in general is a huge limitation in my opinion. You are literally trapped in a box.
Yup, the content of the cards are trapped in a box, but a wysiwyg editor will then trap the cards in a box too.
Why does there need to be cards at all? Just place elements by screen coordinates.
You set the resolution, that sets your boundaries. Then you create an image and attach an “on release” function to it that points to a device. From there you can drag that image anywhere on the screen, make it as wide or tall as you want.
I get that you don’t want to create this, you’ve made that very clear in this thread. But just because you don’t doesn’t mean that someone else wouldn’t.
An example:
I would love a wysiwyg editor that could be universal, but the hardware it has to fit to is far from universal, so I do not believe it can be done.
The current set up can be auto generated to fit all screens.
Yeah but it looks like crap. Sorry.
If it can’t be done, it can’t be done. But the example I show above runs on win/mac/linux/raspberry pi 2’s…
I’m not saying that the current implementation isn’t powerful. It is capable of great things. But it is also a barrier to entry for a lot of people. Anyways. The horse died long ago, so I’ll stop beating it.
I want a fixed grid dashboard that doesn’t need to resize or flow the items between devices.
It should work like a drag and drop grid of squares. Any button can be set to fill as many squares as you wanted vertically or horizontally. Also the option to place buttons anywhere on the grid with empty squares above or to the sides of them.
The overall grid size itself should be customizable. Stretch the grid to fill the viewport 100% across, but let the user set whether it has 10, 20, or even 100 squares across.
Provide an optional header or footer grid that is pinned to the top/bottom and doesn’t scroll with the rest of the page.
Finally, normally when long pressing a button it generates a popup with more controls. I’d like an option for a pinned controls sidebar (left or right) that becomes the target of long press advanced controls. It could have a default setting that fill the sidebar by default such as media controls, but if I long press on an RGB light button then it loads up the color and dimmer controls in that sidebar. If I long press the thermostat it loads extra temperature controls.
If you can come up with a description of how that would work technically, then you would be a billionaire fast.
The entire world of cross device graphical interfaces are waiting for that solution and no one have been able to figure it out the last 40 years.
