[instaviz-users] New User Suggestions...

[Brian H]

I've been looking for a diagramming program for the iPhone and I was  
about to settle on (iBluesky or MindMaker) but happened to come across  
Instaviz and loved it (I've used GraphViz in the past and I think it  
is a great program)

I'd like to offer some new user suggestions (I've not had a chance to  
go over all of the archives yet, so I don't know if these have already  
been addressed):

1. EASY EDITING OF LABEL NAMES: When you double click a node,  
automatically highlight the label so a user can just start typing to  
change the name, instead of putting the cursor at the end of the label  
and forcing them to hit the X or backspace over all of the letters.

2. EXPORT OPTIONS: I saw mention how the Apple API only allows text to  
be sent to the Mail app, so as a compromise, I was curious if it was  
possible to export to one of the disk systems (box.net, iDisk, WebDav)  
and then generate a URL what would point to it and send that to the  
email client (since it is only text).  If the storage systems are not  
easy to guess the URL, you could add a field for the user to enter the  
beginning of the URL and then prepend the filename to it. (then pass  
that to Mail)

3. EXPORT TO PHOTOROLL:  I know that you hit (Home + Power) to take a  
screen shot that goes into the photoroll, where you can then email it  
off.  But why can't you just export a PNG to the photoroll?  This  
seems to be a much better option, you can get a much better sized  
graph that you can send someone and print, and it doesn't have the  
iPhone header and will allow for much larger graphs to be at a  
readable size.   (Both iBluesky and MindMaker seemed to have  
accomplished this)

4. HORIZONTAL GRAPH LAYOUT:  It would be nice to have a toggle box to  
let the user layout the DOT Graph horizontally instead of just  
vertically.

5. (probably hard to do)MULTILINE LABELS:  I noticed if I typed long  
labels they didn't wrap, so the boxes were these long one-line  
monstrosities.  I had to go and examine your diagrams to see how you  
were able to accomplish multiple lines in a box. I figured out you  
entered a '\n' to add a newline, would it be possible to enable the  
"enter/return" have it insert the '\n' and make the Label box  
multiline capable?

Thanks, and keep up the wonderful work.


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Brian H
binarynomad at gmail.com
http://www.binarynomad.com