ratio (by sorcerykid)
This is a placeholder topic for Ratio Workspace, the most advanced formspec editor for Minetest.
Here's a sneak peak of what's in store. The following screencaps depict the latest fully-working prototype from late-June, right before I took a hiatus from Minetest. I know quite a few people were eager to see this project completed, so I promise that work will resume again within the next few weeks. All that remains is some code-cleanup and integration testing :)
No more messing around with Minetest's awkward coordinate system. Ratio is a full featured IDE that works in conjunction with Scarlet Formspec Preprocessor, providing all the tools needed to design forms from the ground up without a single line of code!
Customizable rulers, guides, and grids ensure that every element is exactly where you expect it to be. And best of all you can input arithmetic formulas for any measurements -- including variables for standard padding and spacing.
Having trouble recalling which colors and textures to use? No worry, there are interactive color and texture pickers for this purpose!
Placement, alignment, distribution and ordering of elements is a breeze. And there is support for layers, so elements can be organized into groups for easier manipulation.
Projects can be saved in json format, and also exported as quoted strings for insertion directly into your Lua scripts.
Thanks to everyone that nudged me to keep this project going :)
