I just tried out 1.07 and have a few nits
1) I don't like the new widget toolbar I would have thought an extra row
in the main toolbar or a drop down menu of available widgets would be
better. I realise it's your intention eventually to allow possible
additions to the widget set. For me it's a question of utility. We
already have the attribute editor which does all the things the new
toolbuttons can do and I believe we create widgets and then adjust their
properties ie I use the widget buttons more than the attribute buttons.
The often used attributes can easily be put into convenience menus as in
SpecTcl. The main problem is as always screen real estate. I suppose the
best way out would be a set of toolbars which could be packed into the
main widget (as in excel which does this rather well much to my
amazement). The user could then choose which things he/she is interested
in mostly.
2) Given we can destroy the widget toolbar toplevel we can't seem to get
it back with the Window menu. Another annoying feature on my setup is
that the widget toolbar seems to always be underneath Geometry Info grrh
:(
3) Pressing on the new FG/BG thing seems to lose focus for me at least
for some of the other buttons in the toolbar. Eg I press BG get the
colour tool and cancel. Then pressing on the relief tools again brings
up the colour tool. This is with a test example I built with 1.0x x<=6 I
had selected a checkbox. I found that the anchor? buttons could still be
activated (I was using the placer).
4) The FG/BG tool should be a bit cleverer and choose it's own
foregrounds to be different to the selected colours. I don't know how to
do this easily though to maximise readability.
5) Tcl8.0a1 (with various patches) is still a bomber for me under win32
though it doesn't crash any more.
As I say only nits and I haven't really tried hard with the new features
thanks for the hard work Stewart.
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Robin Becker
