derek | idea company wrote: > Sorry David, > I wasn't expecting that much of a response to the scissors. Perhaps a > modifier inside each lens to turn on/off individual copying. > something like > ex:copyIndividual="[true|false]" > > This way if an exhibitor wants to allow copy individual items they can > do so, but if they want to remove that feature for map or timeline or > scatter plot views they can have that feature turned off. > > I feel responsible for causing the removal of the scissors which in > turn makes me feel that I should at least be helping you out in > figuring out how to replace it, which I'm completely more than fine > with :)
It was actually a little bad of me to impose those scissors on Exhibit 2.0 early adopters... But I think I can get away as 2.0 is still under development :-) Right now I'm leaning toward Florian's suggestion of a special mode. Say, if you hold down Shift, a few little controls appear on the item lenses to let you do things including copy off the data. I think if the scissors are such annoying then giving the option ex:copyIndividual="[true|false]" we can almost guess what people will do. I wonder if there are other things people want to do beside copying... like send the data off to some other web site. Maybe if the user has installed Piggy Bank [1], then there's a button for saving the data into "My Piggy Bank". David [1] http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Piggy_Bank _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
