Now that I'm playing with Camino again [now that it plays nicely with my app and my container] I must say it is still a great product with some untapped potential. First of all I'd like to congratulate the development team on getting so many features added before the v1.0 release. Camino is becoming all that is should be rather quickly. The storyboard printing works very well. The only issue I have with it is that on my black & white laser printer the blue and yellow used for actions and JSP's look the same. It is not really an issue because the labels for actions are different than JSP's.
I also very much like the fact that you can select multiple objects at once. I don't know if that had always been there or not, but I like it now that I know it's there :) It could be improved a bit though, when choosing a select area, a box should appear around the area selected. It looks like Camino tries to draw a box, but on my system it never really shows up. As you saw from my struts-config.xml file, I am working on a project with a lot of actions [~160] and JSP's [~80]. This project doesn't work well with the Auto Layout feature, but I must say it is a VAST improvement over having all objects in random locations! In this case the best situation is to have the starting point be in the middle of the storyboard and have the other elements added radially from that point. Making a series of rings, where each ring representing one step further from the starting point. There may be other common storyboard "patterns", if the user could select which element to start with and which "pattern" to use that would be very cool! Now that I'm playing with so many objects I wish I weren't. Some objects are simply in the way, causing tons of extra linking arrows and don't really add much to the application [like all JSP's containing a link to a single static page]. It would be very nice to be able to _hide_ objects without removing them from the web app. So the object and the links to that object still exist, but they are not displayed on the storyboard. Another problem with having so many objects is that they don't fit on my screen. There really should be a "zoom" setting for the display on the monitor. Being able to select 50%, 100% and "zoom to fit" would probably be enough choices. Next my wish list is a "jump to" feature. It is easy to get lost when you have a couple hundred objects with nearly twice as many links between them. I like the fact that if I select an item in the "explorer" on the left hand side of the screen, it is selected on the storyboard as well. The problem is the selected object is not always displayed on the screen. If there were a way to "jump to" the selected object [perhaps centering the screen on it] that would be very useful. My suggestion would be to select an object on single click and "jump to" it on double click [with a user preference to turn off "jump to"]. Another option would be to add a choice to the right-click menu. Finally, there should be a way to "open last project" or maybe even choose from the last 5 edited projects. I think this was talked about before, but it does not appear to have been implemented yet. Dizzy yet? :) Enjoy, Nathan Anderson === To subscribe/unsubscribe, visit http://list.scioworks.com:8081/guest/RemoteListSummary/camino_user
