LCCreate DP9 Responsive Layout and other failures

  1. This was mentioned by Heather in her first blog entry on using LCC, b ut she described it as a “feature she could learn about”, and I believe it is a bug. And it happened to me on one of my projects.

When LCC makes a row of buttons, and the rightmost button is positioned at the edge of the row - i.e. it is only half visible. Heather was able to “fix” this by a combination of changing the settings for the row from “end” + “left” to “right” and “start” (I think) - but I was not able to find any combination that made all the buttons visible.

  1. It was not always clear to me what I was changing in the Responsive tab. I wanted to centre the buttons, so clicked on the “Dynamic position” control for “centre” - which made the row centred in its column, not the elements within it.

  2. There doesn’t appear to be any way to “undo” that change, and setting it back to ‘fixed’ simply fixed it in its new centred position.

  3. At that point I thought I would simply Quit (without saving), clicked on cmd-Q and it quit - without asking me if I intended to quit without saving. (I would have said yes, but I should have been asked !!)

  4. And then when I re-opened it, I realised that the last save had been before i used the AI - so I accidentally threw away everything.So even the AI is not etting the ‘dirty’ flag to ensure no casual Quit action.

  5. Having thrown away my project, I tried to do it again. And the new layout LCC came up with was very different from its first effort. The first one looked perfectly reasonable, but the second one was not useful (afaict). I would upload the two screenshots - but
    (a) can’t find a way to do that here. Is it time to start using Quality Center for LCC bugs ?
    (b) it’s one and quite without saving again, so can’t get a screenshot of the second, failing, try.

  6. [A guess] I think I’ve done cmd-S cmd-Q to save then quit, just without thinking. and I guess that’s why I keep losing what I’ve been doing.

Hi Alex,

I’m really pleased you’re trying out Create, and even more pleased that you’re giving us great feedback.

The way Create Copilot makes a responsive layout with buttons sometimes cut off at the edge is definitely a bug, its being actively investigated.

Being able to fix it when it happens on your layout involves understanding that the layout is using responsiveness, you can’t just manually move it in the “traditional” way.

Responsive Layout is quite complex. At some point I’ll try and do a deep dive into it and write it up so we can all get a grasp on how to use its many and powerful features.

A proper implementation of Undo is on its way.

Because Create Copilot is AI powered, it will not always come up with the same result even if you use exactly the same prompt. Its not logical in the same way that a computer is logical. It’s “thinking” in some form and for some definition of the word “thinking”.

I just tested whether I can upload a screenshot, and I can - at least I can if it actually shows up when I publish this, we’ll find out in a moment. You click on the small “image” icon in the middle of the row of icons in the topic composition window.

It sounds like we need to investigate the saving issue, I don’t think that should be happening.

Best Regards,

Heather