[instaviz-users] May I suggest a new gesture?

[Glen Low]

Petri

On 14/03/2009, at 3:58 AM, Petri Sirkkala wrote:

> Hi Glen,
> Do you think it could be possible to add another gesture to the  
> Instaviz UI?
> While drawing an edge, if the stroke ends up over the canvas (not over
> any node), duplicate the starting node and add an edge between the
> start node and the duplicate.

That's an interesting idea. I like the fact that it would make drawing  
much faster.

My only worry is how would users cancel an inadvertent stroke? We  
occasionally get these with pinch and zoom gestures, or if the user  
can't quite connect the edge to the node he wants. Of course there's  
the shake-to-delete available but I'm wondering whether these  
inadvertent strokes would be common enough to make "create a duplicate  
node" irritating.




Cheers, Glen Low


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