[Swift-devel] Tryswift enhancements

[David Kelly]

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!

David


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Michael Wilde <wilde at anl.gov> wrote:

> [Moving discussion to swift-devel]
>
> On 4/15/14, 12:06 PM, David Kelly wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> 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
>> http://swiftvm4.ci.uchicago.edu and try the foreach example (still
>> working on some CSS changes there as well).
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Hi David,
>
> I think this is heading in a nice direction. It looks very nice and clean.
>
> Some thoughts:
>
> Top window:
> - Add text in front of menu:   Example: [example-menu] [Explain]
> - [Explain] button should pop out in a new window, sized and placed
> "nicely" (not quite sure what nicely involves yet ;)
>
> Bottom window
> - its hard to tell when the script completes or how many files it produced
> - when you view a file it overwrites the progress window
> - (reset is broken, btw)
>
> How about:
> - dont show the output-files menu while the script is running
> - when script completes, show the menu with a label [N files produced:]
> [output-files-menu]
> - when you select a file, show it in a new popup window "placed nicely"
> with a [close] button top and bottom
> - allowing that window to be multi-media sounds nice
>
> Bigger project:
> - for status, show running tally of the status to the right of the control
> buttons
> - 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.
>
> 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.
>
> How do these sound to you?
>
> - Mike
>
>
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