Suggestion - FF Setting Categories

The filter settings in FilterForge can sometimes get unorganized, especially when you are having plenty of them. When you edit and rearrange inside the editor, settings tend to 'fall down' at the end of the setting-list and it may take time to individually reorganize them again.

My suggestion is a simple system of Setting Categories for FilterForge.
Here are two illustrations I made to exemplify my ideas:

Inside Editing mode:



Outside Editing mode:



With Setting Categories, filter settings will now belong to specific categories:

0) - No Category (Default for old filters without this function)
1) - Category 1
2) - Category 2
3) - Category 3
... Etc...

Whenever a setting is manipulated in the editor, it may fall down at the end of its category, but not all the way to the bottom of the overall setting-list. Thus, it will be far easier to manage and re-organize one's settings when they are assigned to user-defined categories.

Benefits for the users are obvious - clear categories makes it easier to find the correct setting. Perhaps a function to 'fold' categories would also be helpful, so that categories which the user are not tempering with will not show up, except for the category name.

Result: Improved overview, functionality, organization and user-friendliness.

I think it makes sense to have these.

A good suggestion IMO.

+1

Glad there are many interested and a good agreement of many FF users and even GMM

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Skybase didn't I just read some of these suggestions on another thread? Kinda have a case of duplicate posts!! [Edit] for clarity: lol I think Spaceray left the same thing on 3 other posts.

Sorry, but this has not been a duplicated post and I have just put a reference to this thread and not have put the same thing, and as far as I know, I have only made it on just one and only post and not on 3 other posts, if I am wrong you could please, show the other two that I do not know.

I try not to make any duplicate post and put the same thing in two threads.

I have a filter that have been making since some time ago, but have not been able to submit to the library because the setting will be confusing if they are all together, and even giving names specific would not work, the only way to avoid confusion would be this way shown here, I mean to be able to separate the settings

As I already said, this would be a very good thing to have

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I updated the wiki with this link.

Thanks for adding this very good suggestion of feature to the wiki

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Leo Fernevak wrote: With Setting Categories, filter settings will now belong to specific categories: 0) - No Category (Default for old filters without this function) 1) - Category 1 2) - Category 2 3) - Category 3 ... Etc...

This was already suggested in 2013, and I think is a very good, useful and helpful idea, but there is no news about this in 2018.

Yes, it would be nice.
For now I'm solving using a control and connecting it with an unused switch.
It appears like here: