[instaviz-users] 1.5 out and about in the App Store; instaviz.com revamp

[Glen Low]

Tom

On 07/12/2009, at 9:41 AM, tom pfeil wrote:

> Cannot place nodes where I want them on the screen.

Instaviz lets you brainstorm ideas quickly, rather than bogging you  
down with exact placement of nodes on the screen. I think it would be  
difficult for a user to control actual placement effectively on a  
small screen, and also the user interface would be more clunky since  
we'd have to account for drags to link nodes, scrolls/zooms, sketches  
to create nodes and then drags to reposition nodes.

For 1.6 or 2.0, I'm hoping to implement "re-ordering" nodes. While  
this won't actually allow you to reposition the node anywhere, you  
would be able to swap the order of two nodes e.g. looking at the  
diagram below, swapping 1 and 2 or swapping 7 and 8.

> Cannot shape them with
> stylus.  My fingers are large and cannot get consistant size or shape.

You can use the whole screen to draw, and it doesn't have to be  
particularly accurate for Instaviz to recognize it. In 1.5, you have  
to select a node before you can change its shape, so it's easier to  
draw new shapes, even overlapping shapes, without destroying older  
nodes.

I do still have a problem with diamond recognition and hope to fix  
this in the next version.

> Have
> iphone 3GS.  Images go off edges of screen.

There is a known problem where if you sketch objects to the top or  
left while the diagram is small, then when the diagram grows bigger,  
the objects are "off-screen". If this is your problem, you can  
sometimes still connect nodes if you zoom in by pinching with your  
fingers.

I hope to fix this for 1.6 or 2.0.

> Would like to create 3-4 boxes,
> side-by-side at top and build down.  Can't seem to make it so that.

Were you trying for this:

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I made that fairly quickly in Instaviz.

Nevertheless, I appreciate your issues and ask for your patience.  
Instaviz has been out for a year and I've updated it 5 times already  
-- I actively keep track of mailing list emails, some forums pages,  
google results and app store reviews and regularly compile bugs and  
new features to work on. So you can be sure your issues will be worked  
on. See for example:

http://trac.pixelglow.com/instaviz/report/6

If you still want a refund, the usual approach is through Apple  
directly.  Go to http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/#app_store, click  
on the Email Us button and detail your request for a refund.




Cheers, Glen Low


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