Panels

[dmichiels]

The editor have now two panels : editorPanel and graphPanel. The graphPanel display the graph and is used to make the link. The editorPanel is used for all edition features : add new comp, delete a link, ...

It's still experimental, and here is a small list of "bugs" :

• The panel width is not fixed
• SIngle click on component is used for show/hide port and access to the component edit options. Idea of fix : First click to access to the edit options. If the component is clicked again while already display in editPanel, then show/hide ports.
• ugly...

[sjmackenzie]

fantastic progress!

[sjmackenzie]

Why not single left click on a component and the editPanel updates as well as how the input output of the component shows?

I think it is not intuitive to have two single long clicks to see the I/O of the component

Might be neat to click on a component and the graphical links to and from the component get highlighted, thus showing the 1st degree inputs and outputs in the graph graph?

That way a single click lets you see the flow and options associated with the component.

The user may then follow the a more detoiled flow by clicking on each component.

[dmichiels]

Yes, that's a little strange... So, I proposed :

• If the port are hidden, a single click show the ports and the options
• If the options are hide (by clicking on another component, link or bakground) the port stay open.
• If we click again on the "open component", the port stay visible, and we get back the options.
• if the options are showed and the port also, a click hide the ports.

So in fact, we will have the "double-click" for close the port if the component is not selected.

[sjmackenzie]

I don't understand "open component".

The way I had visualized the final product is (as in the .org file I sent you)

• components are images, with a name floating above the image.
• if you click on a component then the I/O panels display the I/O, and the options panel displays the options. -- we can have 1st degree I/O panels open too, so you can see the relationship between components
• if you double click on the component (.oz) then the component opens in a rudimentary text editor so that you can edit and compile the .oz component.
• if you double click on a composite component then the graphPanel redraws with the contents of the composite component.
• if you right click you will return to the previous rendering.
• if you continue pressing right click you will eventually end up in the run mode window.
• if you are in run mode you can execute an "application" by single clicking it.
• if you want to enter the "application" src, you double click on it.

This way the IDE becomes like a web browser in that you follow links about to different logic components. maybe later we can introduce bookmarks on a panel so that you can quickly move about to frequently visited locations (for later)

maybe a better option. Each component is not an image, but a toggle button (with an image on it). So you can turn a component on and off. ON: shows the ports panel and highlights the lines, and adds a widget to the options panel displaying the options of that component OFF: closes the ports panel and removes the widget from the options panel.

This way all options are available your editing.