InterMapper Talk Readers: There have been many recent messages on the list requesting improvements in InterMapper. These are particularly helpful at this time because we are currently working on the next release. A week ago, I sent this note to the current set of testers:
--- Letter sent to InterMapper test list --- A year ago, we announced our intention to minimize the development of the Macintosh Traditional version of InterMapper. You can read that note in the InterMapper-Talk archives, at: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk@list.dartware.com/msg01811.html When we started the development of InterMapper 4.5, we realized that continuing to develop the Traditional version would delay its release by a significant amount of time. We have chosen instead to address the shortcomings of the current Java GUI, and consequently, we have decided not to release a Traditional version of InterMapper 4.5. The reasons are: - As described in the IM-Talk note from last June, it's too expensive for us to develop both GUIs. - The next version will incorporate the major missing features of Traditional. The Device List was added in InterMapper 4.4; Responsibilities and Network Info will be in version 4.5. Although a new Get Info window would provide a nicer GUI, there's nothing in it that you can't do with the Console/Remote client today. - There are things that would be prohibitively expensive to bring to the Traditional GUI (such as removing i18n problems). It would be a ton of engineering to make the legacy Mac GUI support unicode. We would basically have to rewrite the GUI. Fortunately, we've already done that -- in Java. :) Although I know that the Traditional has a long tradition, we intend for InterMapper 4.5 to provide you with a considerably better overall experience. As testers, we look to you to let us know where we need to make improvements. Thanks again for your support of InterMapper. --- end of quote --- The recent discussions on this list have shown that it's important to have a Device Info window similar to the Cmd-I window in Traditional. We have added this to the list of features in the next version. I would ask the list to enumerate the other important facilities that Traditional provides that are not yet available in the InterMapper Remote or Console application. I won't promise that they can all be added, but we will consider all the features you suggest. Thanks, as always, for your interest and enthusiasm for InterMapper. Rich Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com 10 Buck Road, PO Box 130 Telephone: 603-643-9600 Hanover, NH 03755-0130 USA Fax: 603-643-2289 ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
