Nathan, Very helpful feedback!! See inline comments.
At 12:45 pm 11-01-2002 -0800, you wrote: >[snip]... 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. Seems to be some double-buffering issue with Swing. I will look into it. >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! I understand arranging nodes in rings may minimize crossovers. But, I believe when reading a diagram (flow diagram, UML diagram, etc), people have a natural tendency to read from left to right, top to bottom. Nevertheless, the idea of providing layout patterns is intriguing. Need more thinking... >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. Yes, I agree. We're working on this. Besides, the multiple sub-apps idea the Struts development community is planning for Struts 1.1 will also affect how you handle a large project with many JSPs and Actions. Future Camino will support that when it is finalized. >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. Ditto. >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. When you click on an object on the Project Pane tree, Camino should always scroll the Storyboard to show the selected object on the screen. If it doesn't, it'll be a bug. Could you confirm that, Nathan? >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. Yes, I agree. >Dizzy yet? :) Still can manage. Keep them coming. :) -- John Yu Scioworks Technologies e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: +(65) 873 5989 w: http://www.scioworks.com m: +(65) 9782 9610 Scioworks Camino - "Rapid WebApp Assembly for Struts" === To subscribe/unsubscribe, visit http://list.scioworks.com:8081/guest/RemoteListSummary/camino_user
