Hi Simon, 

On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Simon Denier wrote:

> 
> OK two other things
> 
> 1) (minor) I find myself repeatdly trying to extend a Shape size to display 
> more instance variables and methods by looking for the resize handle in the 
> bottom right corner
> 


We wanted to provide a concise and compact view of the shapes, due to the 
restrictions that the current Morphic is pixel based and not scalable, to  take 
the most of the real estate  of a pampas. Possibly once i migrate to a scalable 
and vectorized UI framework ( Morphic3 ?), resizing would be considered.


> 2) when I want to edit a method, the shape takes the full screen and I can't 
> see any other data. Why can't I edit the method in-place
> 


This was a decision i took, based on the fact that this lets you focus on 
writing that method only, similar to what Ommwriter proposes. 
http://www.ommwriter.com/

The idea is to provide a Control panel where the developer can customize the 
system in the next version.

> 
> Also, I find it quickly annoying when I have to place manually each shape 
> created. It would be better if shapes tend to stick to their parent shape 
> when created, and I can move them freely after (I think that one point where 
> codebubbles is good).


This is also something for the next release, i also think that code bubbles has 
a good automatic layout strategy, and would like to provide something similar, 
or even better.


> I actually have more ideas about that, but it's tedious to explain by plain 
> mail.
> 

I would love to hear them! I think this next ESUG would be an excellent place 
to meet and discuss.


Thanks for the feedback !


Fernando



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