I agree with the previous posts by Brad and Scott. Reading them I realized
how much I'd gotten used to over the course of the last year and a half
with MapInfo Pro. Coming from AV, I lamented the difficulty of doing the
simplest things like change a color. I thought I would eventually go blind
scrolling through all of the layers in the layer control and then going
through the dialogue boxes. What in AV takes 2-3 clicks takes 5-7 in MI.
Personally, "database support and awesome 3-d viewing" don't mean much to
me if, just to make a good looking 2d map, I do most of the layout work in
Corel or Illustrator, because I don't want the extra time and grey hair it
seems to take to make a good hardcopy map with MapInfo. If a lot of the
very basics of desktop GIS are so lacking in MapInfo, why should I get
excited over "awesome 3-d viewing?" The price of an upgrade isn't exactly
a bargain, and at this point I'm not even going to bother, unless I hear
something in this forum about how much easier it is to work with. I agree
with Scott the the interface needs a big makeover.
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Admittedly i'd like to see some features added to the layout window.
Something a like 'snap to grid' or 'snap to guidelines' options to make it
easier to produce tidy workspaces (they could take some cues from packages
like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator)
As for fixing things, i believe the whole interface could do with a
make-over. Some simple opertations take 10-15 mouse clicks to achieved
(e.g. change the display style of lines in a layer) Surely this could be
achieve in far fewer clicks. Some floating pallettes that allowed you to
change properties would be a god-send (Pick object, Select colour, click
'APPLY' = 3 clicks) instead of the need to burrow down 4-5 levels of dialog
boxes just to change a colour.
Do any of the mapinfo developers listen to this forum?
>>> Brad Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/5/00 10:36:41 am >>>
All,
One of Mapinfo's biggest problems in the past has been its focus on adding
new features instead of fixing the ones it already has. Four years later, I
am still waiting for a serious printing bug from version 4.0 to be fixed
(maybe they finally did it in v6 but I am not holding my breath).
- Brad
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