Slots move after renaming them

Anvil Q&A
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In this video you can see that, after successfully adding 5 slots to a form created from blank panel, when I start renaming them, they move, and it’s impossible to keep the first slot in the first position.
layout slots

What am I doing wrong?

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I think I found what I was doing wrong: I was not using names in alphabetical order :smile:

This works:

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I don’t see why assigning names to slots out of alphabetical order should be considered “wrong” – or, put another way, why it would be desirable for the IDE to enforce slots’ placement to be alphabetically ordered top-to-bottom/left-to-right.

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I agree.
My solution is really a workaround, waiting for the actual fix.
I guess people don’t name slots too often and no one else had reported it yet.

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Yes this is a limitation with slots. We’ll have a look and see if there’s an easy fix. It does feel like insertion order should be preserved. Thanks for highlighting

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