Group Headings
asaka-wa opened this issue ยท 3 comments
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It has come up a few times recently on the Discord. People want to have a heading on their Dynamic Groups.
Describe alternatives you've considered
This would be as simple as adding a text Aura to the group and using Hybrid Sorting to have it always appear first. However, the difficulty arises when you only want the heading to display when the group has any of its child Auras currently visible. This requires either making the Text Aura Heading contain all the triggers of the children, or using some fairly dodgy code to check the controlled regions of the group. You could also use a Grow function to show/hide the heading text, but that wouldn't allow for the border (if used) to hide properly.
Describe the solution you'd like
Settings in the Group tab for a text heading on the group. Would need to provide the usual font and style settings along with position and spacing. Maybe would benefit from its own border setting in addition to the group's border. I can see people wanting to give the heading its own background.
Bonus points if there are a couple of text replacements available on the group for things like number of active children, number of total children.
Additional context
I'm sure you understand what I mean but a screenshot for context just in case
https://i.imgur.com/UYdln0H.png
My vote on this one is that it's too much additional complexity to add to everyone's groups, so that just a few people can get what they want. Additionally as you say, it's already possible to achieve this via other means.
Group borders not hiding when there are no visible children does sound like a bug, however. Thanks for bringing that up.
I've seen it come up a few times on the discord, so there's definately some demand for that.
But given how specific this is as a solution, I'm not really convinced of the usefullness.
Additionally as you say, it's already possible to achieve this via other means.
It is really very awkward though. No clean way that I could come up with - at least assuming a varied group involving a lot of triggers and/or complex activations.
But given how specific this is as a solution, I'm not really convinced of the usefullness.
I can't really think of how it could be broadened out beyond just its use in Dynamic Groups. I suppose another approach might be to provide some way for an Aura/Trigger to be aware of the parent group, and its active/total children. Though that sounds much less usable and fairly messy.