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00:00 hey guys this is Isaiah from your head
00:03 software today we're talking about
00:04 stacks 4 and the 5 new features we've
00:07 put into it this is feature number 3 and
00:09 it's all about text editing let's have a
00:12 look so I have here a stacks page and
00:17 it's got a bunch of text acts on it and
00:19 we're just gonna edit some and see what
00:21 happens so just like in stacks 3 you
00:25 double clicked add in but now you get
00:28 this nice text edit pane and the text
00:31 edit pane has a bunch of the text edit
00:34 control buttons built into it and the
00:38 reason we did that is number one because
00:40 it just takes up less space on the
00:41 screen when you're not editing text you
00:45 don't have to look at those buttons so
00:48 if you have a smaller monitor that you
00:51 know that might be a really nice to have
00:55 the second reason is a little bit more
00:57 pragmatic though when you're editing
00:59 something that's not plain text like
01:02 this markdown stack the buttons
01:05 contextually know that you're editing
01:07 markdown and there's a little bit
01:11 they're a little bit different so in
01:14 this case if we select a run of text and
01:17 we click bold they automatically inject
01:20 the bold markdown and if we click inside
01:25 of a run of bold the bold button
01:29 highlights and if we click it the text
01:33 in that run auto selects the markdown is
01:36 removed and what well it does the right
01:39 thing you know for markdown or for the
01:42 context that you're working in so
01:46 those are some of the ways that the text
01:49 edit pane helps you out but there is one
01:54 new feature in in here along with all
01:58 the the other buttons and it's for cases
02:02 like this so we have here a text stack
02:07 that has a dark background and it has
02:13 some light text on it this lemon-yellow
02:15 title and when we go to edit that text
02:19 you may have noticed it just wasn't
02:21 readable you can sort of selecting kind
02:25 of see it but yeah in the past the only
02:28 way to edit this text would be to select
02:30 it and change the color temporarily edit
02:32 the text and then change it back but you
02:34 know that could be a real pain so we
02:37 added this contrast button in and it
02:39 allows you to quickly select swap the
02:42 the background color to a dark color
02:48 this also looks pretty good if you're if
02:50 you're working in dark mode and you like
02:53 to add a text on a dark background you
02:55 can just keep it this way the preference
02:57 will stick
03:01 and there's one more little change that
03:04 we made this isn't a new feature
03:07 actually if you're editing some text
03:11 normally you would click OK for those
03:15 those changes to go into your document
03:20 you could also just click anywhere else
03:22 now these ok and cancel buttons they've
03:26 always existed but they used to be up
03:27 here in the toolbar and a lot of people
03:29 didn't realize that they were associated
03:31 with the text editing that you were
03:32 doing so we've put them down where
03:35 people are used to them you know in the
03:37 bottom corner of a modal box and that
03:41 way if you edit some text and you make a
03:42 mistake and you just want to go back to
03:44 where you were you can just click the X
03:47 button and it'll jump back to whatever
03:49 you had there before
03:54 now the last little feature that we
03:56 added to text editing was suggested by a
04:00 customer he had been editing a layout
04:04 that had lots of narrow columns and was
04:06 having a lot of trouble editing those
04:08 columns now in the past you could make a
04:11 partial and kind of break those columns
04:13 out into somewhere else but you know it
04:15 was a lot of work but what we did now is
04:18 we made the text edit pane have a nice
04:20 size even when you're editing a narrow
04:25 column so it'll overflow that column
04:28 into the adjacent areas and no matter
04:33 how small the the column gets it'll
04:35 always be at least this size if you're
04:39 editing text near the edge of your
04:43 layout it won't overflow your toolbars
04:46 either so it it knows and respects the
04:49 boundary of the layout area so that's a
04:54 quick little look at text editing in
04:56 stacks for you know we have a new text
04:59 edit pane
05:00 it has a nice size it has new toolbars
05:03 that are contextual and it has a
05:05 contrast button which is yeah both a
05:09 nice to have and has real practical
05:11 application so that's feature number
05:14 three make sure and check out feature
05:15 number four that is resource images it's
05:18 a lot like having warehouse images built
05:20 in you'll dig it um feature number five
05:23 make sure and catch that one that's
05:25 extensions that's external and externals
05:28 are the big new feature in stacks for
05:31 thanks for watching"}]