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XMind Pro - presentation modus must be improved #131

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Presentation mode was the main reason why I subscribed to XMind Pro but
compared to other presentation modes from other mindmap programs XMind
presentation is not very usefull as implemented in the moment:
1. items are expended but it's not possible to collapse them, all the key
shortcuts for expand and collaps doesn't work
2. items are expended when I don't wish them to expend (see bugid 129), but
it's not possible to collapse them again (see 1.)
3. the only way to use the presentation is the item box with down arrow for
"next" and left arrow for "drill down", there are no corresponding key
shortcuts for this actions (or they are but they are not intuitive, there
is no tooltip or help on this), depending on the structure of the item
different things happens when using the arrows. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
the minimum:
- in presentation mode I want some clear key shortcuts for next item,
previos item, drill down into item (and only in this case the child items
should be shown), drill up to parent item (and in this case the child items
should be collapsed automatically)
- the key shortcuts should not depend on the structure of the mindmap but
should go through the mindmap as through the structure
- there is allways a way to show the structure on the left. I can browse
through this structure, the key shortcuts are intuitive (down, up, right,
left), expanding and collapsing is intuitive. Please add the same key
shortcuts and behaviour for browsing the mindmap directly also when the
tructure tree is not visible.
And, very important, when browsing the structure tree on the left I miss a
key shortcut for selecting the associated topic. I have to click with the
mouse on the item in the structure to focus the associated item in the
mindmap. My suggestion: pressing "Enter" in the structure should do the
same as clicking with the mouse on the item: the item should be selected in
the mindmap. When the user has to use a combination from keys and mouse
this is very bad and not userfriendly.

Please have a look at some other MindMap programs and their presentation
mode. XMind could take a lot ideas from this programs.
Presentation mode was the main reason why I subscribed to XMind Pro but  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
XMind 3.1.0
Windows 7 32-bit German

Original issue reported on code.google.com by germo.go...@gmail.com on 27 Nov 2009 at 2:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
in the help I have found, Enter moves to the next item, Tab moves into the sub 
topics.
Can you add some tooltips or hint inside XMind for the key shortcuts?
Can you implement shift-Enter for moving back to the previous item oposed to 
Enter?
Can you implement shift-Space for moving back to the previous item oposed to 
Space?

Arrow keys does not work as described in the help, they should work as 
described in
the help. Maybe the work as described in some topic structures, but they should 
work
in all structures the same way.

There is a bigger bug:
"Any selected topic will move to screen center automatically."
This should be so, but often the selected item is not focused, it's otside the
screen. This bug must be fixed because presentation makes no sense if the item 
is not
visible. Most time i have this bug when the mindmap was expanded before 
entering the
Presentation modus an if some topics have spreadsheet structure.

Original comment by germo.go...@gmail.com on 27 Nov 2009 at 7:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
There is a bigger bug:
"Any selected topic will move to screen center automatically."

I am shocked that this bug after 5 months is still not fixed!

Original comment by roland.k...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2010 at 7:50