| Feedback/Ideas [message #610914] |
Tue, 04 October 2005 07:39 |
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Originally posted by: abel.castify.net
Hi,
I'd like to give some feedback on my use of VE
Since 1 month, I've used a lot VE to mostly do high fidelity
protototyping...Next, I plan to use the generated code tu use for
production but it's another story.
To put things into context, I am a user interface specialist (from
goal/tasks analysis, interaction design to implementation). My plan is
to bridge the gap between the prototyping and the implementation
smoothly. I make some low-level prototypes on paper and then I go to VE
to make high-fidelity prototypes.
Overall, I love the tool and it helps me doing great things. Especially
it allows me to check what it is possible to do using only GUI Swing
components (versus using home made component that are sometimes too
costly to built)
For me, the worst point of VE is perhaps the performance since VE can be
really slow with complicated GUI (e.g 50 elements with
tabs/jtable/splitpane)
here's my feedback:
Im my use of VE, I deal a lot with the layout manager
- sometimes I use a null layout manager : in this case, I would love to
have a possibility to move component pixels by pixels (with arrows for
example)
-the gridbaglayout is really a poweful layout...and hard to master. Your
constraint editor ("customize layout/component") does really a great job
to. I just regret that it does not allow to deal with gridx,gridy...it
would be really nice...sometimes I need to modifiy the order of the
elements, and it's not easy to do with the direct manipulation
-it's not easy to change the layout of a JPanel (in general the
properties panel is not easy to use)...For component that accept a
layout manager you may allow to set it from the "customize layout
component" in a special tab...
- a toogle button that shows/hide all the boxes that are drawn around
jlabel, jpanel ,etc. would be nice to have a visualization of the final
result (but it's not crucial since it's easy to launch the GUI to look for)
-as I said in a previous post, I'd like to be asked for the component's
text properties (eventually icon for jlabel) as soon as I created a
JLabel,JcheckBox,...
-of course, a zoom tool would be very nice to deal with layout
details...but I imagine that is not easy to do request
One error I noticed: when you duplicate the class (copy/paste in the
package explorer) the duplicated class is not recognized as a visual class.
Keep up the good work!
Pierre Abel, Phd --- User Interface Specialist --- Castify Networks
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