[Xerte] Xerte 3 wish list

Mon Jun 7 09:46:15 BST 2010

Good ideas both. The first is a bit tricky as there are no native
dockable components in Flex, but I think I've seen some components from
other people to handle this. I'd really appreciate any help anyone can
offer towards coding the GUI, so if anyone else is doing any Flex and
would like to get involved in working on the interface, please let me
know!

Second one is easy, and it's little ideas like this that will make the
application much better - thanks,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 31 May 2010 10:25
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte 3 wish list

Regarding wishes:

- I'm not totally lucky with the floating version of the properties
panel. I think I would prefer to have it on the right hand side of my
screen. Perhaps it is possible to make it dockable, so one can decide to
have it as a floating window or docked to one side?

- Also it would be nice to have the type of the icon displayed somewhere
in the properties window, so you don't have to remember all the
different icon types by their thumbnail

Peter

On 27.05.2010, at 16:53, Julian Tenney wrote:

To answer both your mails:

Wishes

-          The properties window disappears if you resize the window,
because it doesn't keep track of the resizing. I'll fix that at some
point.

-          Right click options will be possible, but I've not done any
yet

-          Recent project - yes, that will mean writing out to a file
somewhere to remember them

-          Maybe we should have prefixes on the list posts

[Xerte]

[Xerte 3]

[Toolkits]

[ANN: ...] for announcements. I'll start doing that and you can follow
the lead.

Issues

-          Properties window. You can resize the window to find it - it
won't have disappeared, but it's not ideal There is work remaining on
the interface, so I'll add it to my list.

-          Auto-preview. Since I never write code that crashes, I'd
never considered that ;-) Maybe it should wait for you to preview it...

-          I have a dilemma about the spark classes. Everything is mx:
at the minute. I would like to use spark where there are spark
components, but when I've tried, I've run into a few things that aren't
ideal. I can't remember what now, but one recent memory was to do with
how to make a good job in the editor of using the spark border
components. Part of me says 'well, the mx: components are a LOT more
powerful than the existing Xerte icons, so we're much better off, but
another part of me say 'let's try and get with the latest stuff'. It
also means going through the MetaData.as and making sure that all the
relevant properties, methods, styles and events reflect the underlying
components - and in fact this needs doing anyway - as there are some
errant / not relevant ones in there right now - I created MetaData.as by
manually typing them all in from the help, so that's not trivial...

Basically I just need some time to try it with the spark classes and see
what happens. Also, there are not spark classes for every mx class, so
you end up with a mixture, and I'm not sure that's so great...

-          I think the rotate was done using animateProperty - I
probably just worked quickly and followed up on code that used blur, so
it's just misnamed.

-          The template stuff has much to do...

-          No it doesn't save automatically - I can add in all those
things later,

I think you cans see how much power is in there now...

HTH,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
Johnathan
Sent: 27 May 2010 15:15
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Xerte 3 wish list

I have had a chance to start playing around with Xerte 3 and it looks
like it is going to amazing.

My early dabbles have left me with a few things I would like to see in
Xerte 3 if possible.

1. Can we have right click options on icons e.g.

  Properties (To open the property window, I know it is not supposed to
close but sometimes it does and you can't get it back). 

  Delete (to move the icon to a deleted folder for temporary holding),

  Duplicate (to create a second copy of the icon). I know from a recent
posting there is the option to ctrl + drag to duplicate, but having a
visible way to duplicate icons that was consistent with Xerte 2.n would
be nice.
2. Would it be possible where you have properties with a predictable set
of available values e.g. easing function, to provide a list of those
values rather than a blank text field? Whilst some users might want to
write their own easing function (I am guessing here) most will just want
to use one that is already defined. But it would be much quicker and
more intuitive to select this from a list of valid options than it
currently is to have to research what options are available and then
type one in.
3. Can we have the open dialogue remembering a list of recent projects?

4. I recently had to change my account for this mailing list. I vaguely
remember there being some reference to being able to categorise
postings. As the Xerte project is getting bigger and bigger - now there
is Xerte 3 and I guess at some point Xerte 3 toolkits, would it be
useful to be able to differentiate in some way which product a posting
refers too?

Kind regards

Johnathan

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