Joe,
If you look at Kepler (http://kepler-project.org), which extends the
excellent Ptolemy platform, you'll see that we added a fast search
option to the left pane which makes finding actors much more efficient.
It is based on multiple ontological classifications of the actors, so
there can be many ways to locate a given actor (e.g., searching for
'display gives back both the 'Display' actor and more interestingly the
XYPlot actor, among others.
Matt
Joe Buehler wrote:
Rather than having to expand all the little folders in the left pane
in Vergil, it would be much nicer to just have a list and be able to drag
from the list.
Perhaps instead of a list you could provide a table that showed various
attributes of the items and allowed sorting by clicking column headers
to make it easier to find a particular item.
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
UC Santa Barbara http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics
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