[instaviz-users] New User Suggestions...

[Brian H]

It's a shame how Apple seems to limit basic capabilities one would  
expect in a development platform.

I'm really glad to hear that there is an active roadmap for InstaViz,  
I think it is a great product, and look forward to supporting it for a  
long time to come.

For the current EXPORT options, is it possible make the app remember  
the last credentials used?


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Brian H
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On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Glen Low wrote:

> Brian
>
> On 09/01/2009, at 4:04 AM, Brian H 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)
>
> Thanks for trying Instaviz!
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>
> Your fundamental impulse appears to be easier editing of labels. I'm
> working on inline label editing for 2.0 which will make editing much
> easier overall, and hope to incorporate line breaks, akin to how SMS
> and AIM do it.
>
> Ryan is correct that there's no way to select or even preselect a
> section of text in the iPhone, presumably because there's no cut and
> paste support either. I did one better than Apple's default
> implementation though: when you open a Settings screen in Instaviz,
> the first typeable field is focused, unlike with Apple apps which
> don't do this. I did this mainly to make label editing easier, because
> it saves you an additional tap. I could also blank out the label but
> that would not be desirable when all you wanted was to browse instead
> of edit.
>
>> 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)
>
> That's an excellent idea! WebDAV URL's are supposed to be the same
> whether you read from them or write to them, so I could include a
> check box which allows this -- at least this would save the additional
> step of figuring out and manually copying out the URL.
>
> If I have the time for a  1.3 version, it will go there, otherwise it
> may wait for the 2.0 rollup.
>>
>>
>> 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)
>
> It appears that exporting to the photoroll is only at low resolution,
> but I will certainly investigate 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.
>>
>
> Ditto comment to 2. -- it will be in 1.3 or 2.0.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers, Glen Low
>
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