<div dir="ltr">These sound pretty good. I'll implement most of these and get it to a more polished/styled state soon, just wanted to get some initial feedback if I was going in the right direction or not. Thanks!<div><br>
David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Michael Wilde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wilde@anl.gov" target="_blank">wilde@anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 4/15/14, 12:06 PM, David Kelly wrote:<br>
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Hi Mike,<br>
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One idea I had for tryswift was to change the way that file outputs are displayed. Keeping them in a drop down list saves some space and I think makes it look a little cleaner. To see what I mean, check out <a href="http://swiftvm4.ci.uchicago.edu" target="_blank">http://swiftvm4.ci.uchicago.<u></u>edu</a> and try the foreach example (still working on some CSS changes there as well).<br>
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Right now it only handles html/text, but if the file output was images or videos, they could be loaded in the same window. Just wanted to get your initial thoughts before I did too much with it.<br>
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Hi David,<br>
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I think this is heading in a nice direction. It looks very nice and clean.<br>
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Some thoughts:<br>
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Top window:<br>
- Add text in front of menu: Example: [example-menu] [Explain]<br>
- [Explain] button should pop out in a new window, sized and placed "nicely" (not quite sure what nicely involves yet ;)<br>
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Bottom window<br>
- its hard to tell when the script completes or how many files it produced<br>
- when you view a file it overwrites the progress window<br>
- (reset is broken, btw)<br>
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How about:<br>
- dont show the output-files menu while the script is running<br>
- when script completes, show the menu with a label [N files produced:] [output-files-menu]<br>
- when you select a file, show it in a new popup window "placed nicely" with a [close] button top and bottom<br>
- allowing that window to be multi-media sounds nice<br>
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Bigger project:<br>
- for status, show running tally of the status to the right of the control buttons<br>
- add button [Progress log] that shows the progress to date or after the fact, as a pop-up. With cleaner timestamp etc. WHich we should make the default for all Swift runs.<br>
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So with this improved progress menu, you'd have a very clean look with the Swift text taking most of the window, bracketd by a script-selector stripe at the top and an execution control strip at the bottom.<br>
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How do these sound to you?<br>
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- Mike<br>
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