[gme-users] GME suggestions / ergonomic feature requests

[Akos Ledeczi]

You are aware of the multisheet capability of the metamodeling
environment, aren't you?

Akos


gabtromb wrote:

> GME metamodels seem to occupy a LOT of space on the screen. I would 
> suggest the following features to make it more usable
> 
> 1- Among the various zoom levels, it seems to me that you are skipping 
> the one in which the font is Arial size 7. This was the main font size 
> which I would have kept, since size 7 is the smallest size in which 
> Arial is perfectly readable, in facts it has even less artifacts than at 
> size 9 which is the one you are using by default. I suggest to use size 
> 7 by default in the model view and also in the aspects dockable window.
> 
> 2- The metamodel icons are too big compared to what is written inside. I 
> suggest you don't leave more than 3 pixels of white space horizontally 
> and 2 vertically between the charachter strings inside the metamodel 
> icons and the borders of the metamodel icons themselves. Also if there 
> are no attributes, the empty attibutes region should be half high than 
> it is now.
> 
> 3- Provide a "hand" feature like in Acrobat Reader to move the sheet if 
> it's larger than viewable area. It should be a button among the tools on 
> the left.
> AND
> I also suggest to trigger the hand behaviour while the middle mouse 
> button is held down (central mouse button is currently unused now, 
> correct?) and/or when [SHIFT] is pressed and left mouse button is down. 
> Disregard the WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages while the central mouse button is 
> down, because many people have the wheel as middle mouse button, which 
> is likely to rotate while pressed.
> 
> 
> Thanks for this excellent application
> Gabriele Trombetti
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