Both the delete and move action icons are great additions. I’m not a fan of their placement though, as they overlay the cell output: [55] Please consider putting them somewhere else (e.g. beside the pin) or only showing them on mouseover. Otherwise users would have to add extra padding to the ou…

If you’ve got a relatively wide monitor, befitting a browser window wider than 1110px, then as of now you can luxuriate with offset, non-overlapping delete and move buttons: [40%20PM]

Unfocus the cell and they’re gone, even if the cell is pinned. Unfocusing the cell interrupts the development flow, because even with escape the editor focus and cursor position is lost. Right now I’d have to proxy the cell output to a different cell to work around that.

Thanks for the feedback. We’re thinking about further improvements here.

Wait, you need to see live updates to the entire area of the output during the time while you are actively typing in the box? FWIW, I think the current position is great. As an alternative to “proxying the cell output to a different cell”, you might consider opening up two windows and using one fo…

[image] jrus: Wait, you need to see live updates to the entire area of the output during the time while you are actively typing in the box? No, I need to see them while having the editor focused, especially when I tweak parameters or code for generative output. [image] jrus: As an altern…

Rethink position of delete / move icons

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magjac June 14, 2018, 12:11pm 2

They are only visible when the cell is focused; See No possibility to delete a cell. Unfocus the cell and they’re gone, even if the cell is pinned.

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Rethink position of delete / move icons

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