Martin, looks nice. It certainly will be handy for some things that I do.
I never use drag-and-drop nor ALL, so that doesn't bother me. Of course,
my VPE habits started well before they were available, and thus, are hard
to break. ALL was added when customers complained that they didn't
understand the categories and therefore, didn't know where to look for
modules. Of course, they never bothered reading the manuals or
understanding some of the rationale. I don't know if that's still a
concern among current users or not.
Thanks.
"Martin S. Tignor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 02/13/2003
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Subject: [opendx-dev] changes to the vpe
Hello,
I plan to check in code in the src/uipp directory
that will change the tool selector in the vpe.
There are a lot of files involved. This will
happen in the next day or 2 or 3, I think. After
you see all the check-in messages, just be aware
things might be a little unstable for a day or 2.
...in case I have to fix bugs or cross-platform problems
or whatever.
What changes:
- The tool selector becomes a set of tabbed pages that
resemble the canvas area in appearance. There are
2 pages. One page is a new tool selector that
is pretty much like the old one. The 2nd page
is a list of recently used files. Double click
in the list to open a file. Dxui saves the list
when it exits and reloads it at start up.
- The 2-list implementation of the tool selector
is replaced with an outliner.
- Type-ahead in the tool selector has an associated
text widget that appears/disappears as needed.
- If "( ALL )" is open when you use
type-ahead, then type-ahead will locate a tool
in "( ALL )". Otherwise the tool
is located in its category.
- Drag-n-drop to/from the tool selector is gone
but I think it was never really needed, anyway.
I'll be interested in reactions. One that
I've gotten so far is that it might be better to
remove the "( ALL )" category from the categorized
list and put it in a separate page.
Martin
