Hey ccrashh... Just spent the last hour taking another quick tour of the Developer Studio and must say that I find the new look refreshing.
Yes indeed, it is cluttered, but if you play around long enough with a big enough monitor (or multiple monitors) you can easily change it to fit your desired perspective. One of the things that impressed me - was that it was not that difficult to find your way around - once you read a bit of the documentation. Very much like other IDE's like Visual Basic, Visual Dataflex, Realbasic etc.... Here are some of the new changes I noticed that I liked (for all I know they may not be new): 1) Multiple View By Form capabilities. 2) The ability to view all objects in a form outline and then view the properties in the property window while the item is highlighted on the form in the editor window. 3) Key Assist (Ctrl-Shift-L) - these are all the hot key shortcuts that can be used. I am not sure that you will be able to move as quickly using keystrokes as in the old tool - this will definitely be a new learning curve... 4) Auto Mapping during set fields and push field actions is very nice - since it allows you to do the mappings one at a time or all at once. If you do them all at once you can now remove fields - excellent feature. 5) The ability to filter and limit workflow objects that are being used in workflow (qualifications, if else actions etc.) is a nice innovation. 6) Multiple workspaces are very nice. 7) The tabular interface for looking at workflow objects is excellent. 8) The ability to zoom in and out on a view - will allow for the creation of nicer user interfaces. 9) Application Commands have been nicely integrated into the tool much the same way as functions, and keywords (with excellent help text). 10) Applying Group permissions appears to be a whole lot simpler and easier. 11) The ability to select all fields on a form and go to the properties window and do a bulk modify. I am sure that there are other efficiencies that I have not yet noticed. All in all - it is different, but I suspect that in time we will learn how to use it as efficiently as the previous tool... The bonus as I understand it - will be the ability to add new features in the future. One thing that would be nice - is the ability to copy parts of workflow If then Else statements to other pieces of workflow. All in all - I found that you can do everything that you used to do! On Feb 10, 1:59 pm, ccrashh <[email protected]> wrote: > @Icarus4 > > Oh my god...Can you say "cluttered"? I just took a look at the > Introduction PDF for the Developer Studio, and the screenshot is > horrendous. Of course, I assume I can close some/most of the windows. > Hope so. > > As a developer of fully customized solutions, rather than modifying > the out-of-the-box ITSM suite, I wonder about this change. Is it > better? Will it enable me to build a full solution quicker? If not, > then the update is no good. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, so > have no opinion (other than the cluttered screenshot mention above). > > Steve > > On Feb 10, 6:13 am, Icarus4 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Well guys... I'm really wondering what you are all waiting for? A tool that > > does everything for you? > > > Personally I spent 30 minutes so far on it and could quite easily find back > > the functions I need. I know I will definitely have to read the manual to > > get familiar with all interface details but so did I back in 2001 with > > Remedy 4.5 and then Remedy 6.3 later.... > > > I have two 22" wide screens running at 1680x1050 and I'm just amazed to > > finally have the possibility to work on my form fully displayed on one side > > and have my properties on the other side.... finally a real workspace. > > > Also I have the feeling it is now faster to develop. I am working on a > > system that is located at the other end of the world and generally have to > > develop using Terminal Service because of the response time. My first > > attempts to develop on 7.5 appeared to be much, much, much faster but on > > that one I will see the real difference in a couple of months as the system > > is not yet in production. > > > Conclusion... for me BMC is really doing a great job on improving this > > system and everything I've seen so far (ARS 7.5, ITSM 7.5, CMDB 7.5 wth > > Tibco and the the new Atrium Impact Simulator, Dev Studio, Import Tool, etc) > > is looking promising and I can't wait for the next version as I have the > > feeling there will be some big changes again. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives atwww.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
