[instaviz-users] New User Suggestions...

[Luc Nocente]

Where is the new release?

Sent from my iPhone
Luc Nocente
ln at NorPix.com
Tel: 514-824-2517

On Jan 8, 2009, at 14:05, "Brian H" <binarynomad at gmail.com> wrote:

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