I’ve been using this since the beta was announced and I have been pleasantly surprised with it. I know some people reported hitching or slugginess but on my (admittedly really good) systems I’ve not noticed it at all.
One thing I will say is that I miss the arrows on the scrollbar for moving up and down a single line. I know that we as a society have seemingly moved past having those, but I miss them and am sad that they’re gone.
Also it makes the plugin widget look a bit old. It’s like when Studio first got the ribbon UI but I was on Windows XP so everything looked ancient except for the ribbons.
This was the 1 thing stopping me from using the new explorer. Thank you roblox!
Edit: after using the explorer for a week I started to realize how ANNOYING it is to not be able to do any of these things while having scripts open.
Delete Objects
Copy Objects (using ctrl+d)
And prob more.
As a scripter this really messes up my flow and Is generally very annoying, everything else about the exploror is fine for me at least though. Roblox can you please fix this bug?
Thank you for your work, but there are two glaring bugs that are still incredibly inconvenient.
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After searching in the explorer and selecting something, the scrolling frame position is not preserved.
Fixed by restarting studio. ## 2
Scrolling with mouse wheel while drag-and-drop is not working properly. I understand you added the new “easier” drag-and-drop feature, but I still want to scroll the explorer with my mouse wheel for quick drag-and-drop most of the time. Right now it behaves very strangely.
In the following video, I am scrolling my mouse wheel up and down the entire time. The scrolling frame only responds when I move my mouse in random directions simultaneously:
Personally, I don’t really care for this change and yes, I like the fact that it fits more with the modern style.
The only problem I have with it is the fact that I can’t use the vanilla icons with it, which still prevents me from wanting to switch.
EDIT: I just realized that the Vanilla Icons do in fact work with the new explorer. And ngl, that new UI looks clean (aside from the new studio layout one)
ANOTHER EDIT: I was trying the new UI for a while and switched back due to some freezing and unexpected bugs. I hope these are fixed before this is forced upon everyone regardless if they turned off the beta feature or not.
I have a question - is the new explorer available to everyone, or only the beta is accessible to everyone? I don’t see the new Explorer yet in Studio, so I’m curious when it will be fully released.
It’s an opt-out beta, so everyone who didn’t change the setting will have it on. If you don’t have it on, it probably means you turned it off earlier, so I would just flip it again.
I’ve been using this feature for a while now and it’s been nice seeing it get more and more stable. I can’t wait for the property window revamp.
I’d like to feature request a way to clear your search history. I don’t personally have a large use for it, but some people might want to do that. Plus, it’s more consistent because you can already clear your history in places like the Toolbox search.
There shouldn’t be any way to open both the old and new explorer at the same time–if you’re able to do that, I suggest making sure you didn’t change any FFlags. We do not promise any stable behavior when changing FFlags directly as a user.
I never enabled the beta Explorer - actually, I never even knew about the beta until now. Since beta features can be more unstable than full-release versions, I usually just wait for the full release instead.
If I understand right, since I never toggled the beta-setting, it sounds like the new Explorer should have been auto-enabled for my version of Studio then?
Pressing Tab while in the rename text box used to take you to the next instance in the heirarchy to rename it. Now it just inserts a tab in your text box. Rather small one, but still a nice-to-have.
