Hey weird, my last two posts haven't shown up.  Have I managed to annoy someone 
there enough to get added to the blacklist? :)
 
Anyway, I understand your reasoning, though I didn't mind (ah, notice) the 
performance decrease.  Must be because it was combined with performance 
increases, especially around undos.  Or maybe my workspaces just aren't 
monstrous enough.  I don't know why, but I like your view panel a LOT more than 
the same widget in Visio.
 
Oh.  It looks like the list behaviour may have changed to Send-To-Recipient???  
Mark, did you get copies of my last two replies?
 
Jason
 

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From: Dale Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 2007-03-01 3:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [fme] Re: Overview window defaulting to off?



Hi Jason/Mark,

With respect to having the overview window not there by default, perhaps
this was us whimping out, but what we've found is that if you have a
MONSTROUS workspace (which sadly would be when you'd want this thing),
it greatly slows things down.  And we'd gotten complaints from folks
about the slowdown.

Since we had no complaints that there was no overview window before, we
thought it would be better to make the default be that its off, and only
if you want it, you turn it on, knowing some things will be slower.

So that's why we did what we did.

We *do* want to make the overview window faster, but that's a project
for FME 2008, so we felt this was the best choice for this release.  I'm
sad about it too, but it was a call made to reduce complaints actually
by just removing the source of the complaint, or at least making people
that want the functionality pay the price for it...

And that's the way it is... (Walter Cronkite reference there...)


Dale


On 2/28/07, mark2atsafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You mean it's off by default when a new FME is installed?
>
>  I'll check and see if we can turn it on; though I have to disagree
>  (don't I always) and say it's just not my cup of tea. Perhaps if I
>  created workspaces with more than 3 transformers...
>
>  Mark
>
>  --- In [email protected], "Jason Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  > How come?
>  >
>  > I love the Window (and really miss it on my production servers that
>  > are a release behind) and would hate to see other users not using
it
>  > because they don't know it's there. :)
>  >
>  > Jason





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