Carla....I know you have a wishlist/future plans....why don't you list them here and avoid people re-telling you ideas? :)
and of course, several people may be intrested in the future features or ideas ! 2010/8/19 Carla F. Griggio <carla.grig...@gmail.com> > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor.gi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> And some more feedback: >> > > >> - It would be nice to be able to add comments >> > > Comments would be great indeed :) > > >> - When creating a new diagram, the new diagram should be selected by >> default (right now it is not predictable) >> > > Whoops, that's right! > > > Thanks! > > Carla > > >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> >> On 19 Aug 2010, at 17:23, Tudor Girba wrote: >> >> I took a quick look, and it looks quite nice! >>> >>> Here is a bit of feedback: >>> - I would prefer to have the menus for manipulating entities directly on >>> the canvas, and not in the panes below >>> - It looks like the last character from the name of the class gets >>> trimmed >>> - sometimes the last character from the names of the methods appears on >>> the next row >>> - When trying to create a box from existing class, I get DNU when the >>> class does not exist. Here I would expect to have the option of selecting >>> this class from a list, not to know it upfront >>> - I would prefer another notation for interfaces vs. classes. Right now >>> you have two borders on top of each other: solid for those entities that can >>> hold code, and dotted for those that cannot be instantiated. I would prefer >>> to have only one border with different thicknesses or different shades of >>> gray to denote code, and italic text to denote abstractness (for traits and >>> interfaces). >>> >>> I am not sure if it matters, but I have to mention that I tested in on a >>> Pharo 1.1 on a CogVM. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Doru >>> >>> On 19 Aug 2010, at 16:56, Carla F. Griggio wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone! >>>> Well, here I am announcing the resulting project of my GSoC experience >>>> during the [your] summer: smallUML, a project to help us building diagrams >>>> and sharing them with any package of code. >>>> My mentor was Stephane Ducasse and my co-mentor Geert Claes, so thanks >>>> to them for the guidance up to now, and also to Fernando Olivero who helped >>>> me a lot (hope to do some coding with you at ESUG! :P). >>>> >>>> You can gofer it: >>>> >>>> Gofer it >>>> squeaksource: 'smallUML'; >>>> package: 'ConfigurationOfSmallUML'; >>>> load. >>>> (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfSmallUML) project latestVersion load. >>>> >>>> And then open the Diagram Browser of the current little examples >>>> evaluating: >>>> >>>> DiagramDrawingDocumentation openDiagramBrowser . >>>> >>>> This is beta and I'm still working on it, my work will continue after >>>> GSoC's deadline, so of course your welcome to give some feedback and think >>>> about what features would you like it to have and if you're confortable >>>> with >>>> the current features. It would be really nice if this helped to get all >>>> Pharo projects more documented, with visual diagrams that help >>>> understanding >>>> them at a glance. >>>> >>>> Talking about that... the current features are: >>>> • Open a Diagram Browser for an existing Category Diagrams Holder >>>> (this is a class ment to hold the created diagrams and there should be one >>>> per category, for now; you can browse DiagramDrawingDocumentation to see an >>>> example) >>>> • Create and edit diagrams programatically describing them with >>>> "diagram code" (the diagram code it's just a protocol of methods meant to >>>> describe diagrams, you can see some diagram code browsing >>>> DiagramDrawingDocumentation methods or each Class Box in the Diagram >>>> Browser) >>>> • Every diagram you build through the Diagram Browser it's saved >>>> as "diagram code", so you can share it as code that will reproduce your >>>> diagram :) That means that diagrams can 'travel' along it's package when >>>> you >>>> commit your changes with Monticello! And then they can be edited by >>>> anybody, >>>> they're not just a pretty picture. >>>> • You can export your diagram as a PNG picture or you can export >>>> it's "diagram code" as a workspace. >>>> • Only Class Diagrams can be built for now. >>>> • Class Boxes of a class diagram can be dragged to be easily >>>> positioned. >>>> Some details that are missing: >>>> • It's funny, but I can't center the class boxes title! :P >>>> • I tried adding some scrollbars to the "whiteboard" where you >>>> can view your diagrams in the Diagram Browser, but if I did that the drag & >>>> drop of the class boxes worked funny :( I'll ask about that to you later. >>>> On the way: >>>> • Tests and documentation, and a screencast showing every >>>> feature. >>>> • Lots of refactors: as I'm adding more kind of diagrams right >>>> now, so I'm doing a lot of refactors to make everything more flexible and >>>> improving all the messy code there. >>>> • A version of Minimal Connectors for anybody to use if they feel >>>> like connecting morphs for another project. >>>> • Some usability improvements. >>>> • Object diagrams >>>> • Sequence diagrams >>>> • Your feedback :D >>>> >>>> So I'd really appreciate if you can give it a try and tell me how you >>>> feel about it, I'd like it to be very usable. >>>> >>>> Cheers! >>>> >>>> Carla >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Pharo-project mailing list >>>> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> www.tudorgirba.com >>> >>> "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, >>> one might have better chances to win by moving slower." >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "It's not what we do that matters most, it's how we do it." >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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