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