Also there's now way to be sure which of the open ICE trees the user wants to place a new node into. PITA.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Stefan Kubicek <[email protected]>wrote: > also, we can't even get decent SDK functionality for the views so we can >> create this ourselves. >> > > Right, that's the biggest problem for implementing any quick-search > utility atm. > All quick-search functionality (or menus for favorite nodes, as in the > Qmenu implementation) is mostly futile once you need to add nodes to a > dense ICE tree since there is no exposed functionality in the SDK to place > them at some distinct location or view coordinate - they simply get > dropped where ever Soft thinks is enough space to avoid node overlapping in > the tree, and that can be way off screen. All the precious time saved to > create the node quickly goes to waste searching for it in the tree after > creation. I added a feature req early during the 2014 beta for that > (basically suggesting to mimicing the Schematic View SDK functionality in > this respect) the but it didn't make it into the initial release, and I > don't have high hopes it will make it into SP1 either. > I even wrote to Chris directly about this very issue (sorry Chris, I know > I can be a PITA sometimes), > but got no response, maybe because it was just before the official > announcement of 2014 and everybody was busy. > > Good things come to those who wait too I guess, just a little later... > > > -- > ------------------------------**------------- > Stefan Kubicek > ------------------------------**------------- > keyvis digital imagery > Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 > A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien > Phone: +43/699/12614231 > www.keyvis.at [email protected] > -- This email and its attachments are -- > --confidential and for the recipient only-- > >
