[instaviz-users] Locking the screen Re: Feature requests

[Andy Dent]

First of, can people use more meaningful subjects so it's easier to  
spot threads, please!

On 09/05/2009, at 11:37 AM, Glen Low wrote:

> All
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> On 31/08/2009, at 5:28 AM, Andy Dent wrote:
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>> On 08/31/2009, at 2:43 AM, Simon Fisher wrote:
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>>> My only feature request is a landscape rotation button or something,
>> a rotate lock like Stanza would be nice
>> Their implementation:
>> 1) kicks in at the document level...

>> 2) is accessible from a settings page you can get to with about 2-3
>> taps whilst in a document, without losing document context
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be better to have a transient lock that you could toggle
> at the graph/document level?
I think that depends if people are working on one graph for a long  
time or flipping between a few. If you have to toggle a transient lock  
back on every time you change graphs, that could get annoying really  
fast.

> Do you guys find yourself wanting to change orientation all the time
One difference between reading text documents and reading graphs is  
that different graphs may be laid out horizontally or vertically anyway.

I often find myself rotating the device to get a portrait version of  
the setting screens, especially as the keyboard takes up 2/3 of the  
screen in landscape mode.

So, locking behaviour on or off is one setting but I would want to be  
able to keep the preferred orientation for a given graph.

To make it work conveniently for me, I'd need to be able to set  
orientation before flipping on the setting to ignore rotations.

Hmm, maybe the whole thing is too hard to get the state combinations  
right? Something to consider is whether the vast number of users would  
value it as highly as something like being able to see more of the  
settings without that damned keyboard in the way :-)

Andy Dent - www.aussiedesignedsoftware.com
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