On Tuesday 07 Jul 2009 9:22:51 am Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
At Sat, 4 Jul 2009 23:14:35 +0530,
K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
Hi,
"EToysLauncher openPanel" is a much better open for findAProjectSimple than the current project open dialog. Is there any reason why it is not being used? Is it on the way out?
As far as I can tell, it doesn't show all projects in a folder and there is not scrolling or paging to access them. (openGallery does have it)
It is meant to act like "10 Recent Projects" and is quite quick. It could use a button to open a gallery for all the rest of it.
And I have 100's of .pr in a folder, and it takes a quite long time to open it even on my regular laptop.
You mean 'openGallery'? It creates a book and populates all the pages with graphic buttons.
Seemingly a nice idea but it doesn't often scale.
I suppose both ideas (panel and gallery) can be combined to present a single book with the first page containing "10 recent projects" and other pages lazily updated to display entries from the servers.
A simple metaphor for off-image project files would be a ScrapBook with lazily updated pages containing project entries as icons. Drag an icon from the scrapbook and drop it into the current world to create a ProjectViewMorph. Click to enter and edit it. On coming back to its parent, the same morph can be dropped back into the book to save it. We only need a single Scrapbook icon instead of the current Load and Save icons.
Subbu