To clarify:
- Many apps do allow for mathematics to be used to quickly change a value without using a calculator. We’ve actually had this on our list to do for a while.
- CSS has a nice new
calc()method, but this is a persistent calculation and not just used as a setter as we’d probably do in Hype. But bound values with calculations are a really powerful future feature… no promises! - Percentages are quite different than fractions
. Many of Hype’s fields do not allow fractional values for simpler UI or due to the underlying CSS implementation. There are cases here we can improve. - Percentage values in position/sizing, that are based on a parent container, are common in CSS. Adobe Edge Animate had a method that would let users choose between using
%orpx. There are a lot of tradeoffs to doing this, and it isn’t likely Hype will support percent-based units, or any units other thanpx, anytime soon.