Question:
The more I use Wix Studio, the more often I seem to encounter a silly issue, then I need to spend inordinate amounts of time working out what the issue is and a way around it, simply because the application doesn’t behave the way it should. Am I missing something? Am I using the application wrong?
Product:
Wix Studio
What are you trying to achieve:
So I just rearranged a bunch of elements and slightly altered the sizes of things. Firstly, this took way longer than it should, simply because the “scale proportionally” setting seems to cause elements to want to resize even if you move them between cells in a section or seemingly when you move/resize other unrelated elements - in my opinion, Studio desperately needs a modifier key to hold down when moving/resizing elements to temporarily disable any autoscaling. At some point, while having difficulties getting any of the elements to resize properly, I discovered that I had to offset the numbers I was inputting to the size dimensions - for example to get a width of 260, I was typing 260 and it would change to 262, so instead I had to change it to 258 to get 260.
After this, I moved back into position a stack that contains a parent multi state box with a child container and that container has a child repeater. Initially, the container was set to “overflow content” = “scroll” and the repeater was nested properly inside the container. At some point, randomly while making code changes to a completely different page, code that in no way would affect these elements; the overflow scroll stopped working properly - basically the repeater seemed to be offset so the first item was beyond the top of the scroll bar, so I disabled the overflow temporarily. After rearranging the other elements and moving this back into place, suddenly when I reenable the overflow setting, now I cannot resize the container to be smaller than the repeater within, effectively making the overflow setting pointless. I had to trick it by placing another container within the parent container and placing the repeater inside that, then make the nested container also overflow, then resize it and then disable the overflow again. Why?
Doing this for some reason made resizing all these elements to fit properly on the page and look aesthetically pleasing extremely tedious as well, as the child elements within the container for some reason seemed to be pushing out the height so it couldn’t go below a certain number, even though padding and margins were set to accommodate the child elements.
What have you already tried:
Patience and perseverance.
Additional information:
I’ve reported a few issues outside of these already to Wix support, I’m getting a bit bored of having to do this, only for them to just end up telling me that they’ll look into it. Do they not have their own testers on staff? It seems like they’re relying too heavily on customers discovering bugs and reporting them.