PDA

View Full Version : First thoughts


philblaylock
01-03-2009, 08:56 AM
Well done to all at Promethean for getting the new software out. [clap] It's great to see some of the comments which were made on the old forum have been taken up. The wheel in desktop mode looks very exciting! In fact, when I got the serial number from AP3 to download the version, it's amazing to see just how superior Inspire looks and feels.

A couple of things which were raised as development issues haven't been addressed which I feel will make a difference to using Inspire.

1) I'm doing Inset on Inspire next week and I know that the camera tool will cause confusion in Desktop mode. Please can inserting a new / existing page insert into the currently open flipchart (not the desktop flipchart which is created)?

2) When using the clock, the countup and countdown still default to 0 - please can they have some memory and hold the last values?

3) When closing flipcharts, nearly all dialogue boxes displays the options in the order of Yes / No / Cancel but Inspire does it differently (and I thought Andy had sold his soul to Microsoft to correct this for cake!!). Please can this be made consistent?

4) When using shapes, please can the shape icons, as happened in AP3, be shown as the colours they will appear on the flipchart?

5) We had 2 toolbars at the bottom of Inspire in the Beta version and now there is only one, often with a large empty void on one side. Will we get the option to have 2 different, sizeable toolbars at the botton?

Hope this is taken as constructive feedback, as it's meant to be. I can see how much work and creativity has gone into producing Inspire and think it's great!

Phil

Louise Chew
01-03-2009, 09:43 AM
in answer to 1

there is a camera tool available on the desktop tools wheel - this should add any snapshots to the current flipchart & not to a desktop flipchart

philblaylock
01-03-2009, 10:33 AM
in answer to 1

there is a camera tool available on the desktop tools wheel - this should add any snapshots to the current flipchart & not to a desktop flipchart

So it does!! Thanks. Can we define which tools appear in the wheel? That would be fantastic.

Louise Chew
04-03-2009, 09:51 AM
Well done to all at Promethean for getting the new software out. [clap] It's great to see some of the comments which were made on the old forum have been taken up. The wheel in desktop mode looks very exciting! In fact, when I got the serial number from AP3 to download the version, it's amazing to see just how superior Inspire looks and feels.

A couple of things which were raised as development issues haven't been addressed which I feel will make a difference to using Inspire.

1) I'm doing Inset on Inspire next week and I know that the camera tool will cause confusion in Desktop mode. Please can inserting a new / existing page insert into the currently open flipchart (not the desktop flipchart which is created)?

2) When using the clock, the countup and countdown still default to 0 - please can they have some memory and hold the last values?

3) When closing flipcharts, nearly all dialogue boxes displays the options in the order of Yes / No / Cancel but Inspire does it differently (and I thought Andy had sold his soul to Microsoft to correct this for cake!!). Please can this be made consistent?

4) When using shapes, please can the shape icons, as happened in AP3, be shown as the colours they will appear on the flipchart?

5) We had 2 toolbars at the bottom of Inspire in the Beta version and now there is only one, often with a large empty void on one side. Will we get the option to have 2 different, sizeable toolbars at the botton?

Hope this is taken as constructive feedback, as it's meant to be. I can see how much work and creativity has gone into producing Inspire and think it's great!

Phil


3) I can see where we went wrong with this one - it does do it in studio mode but not in primary mode, I've raised this & will go & remind Andyed of his soul selling!

Mark Herbert
05-03-2009, 10:14 AM
3) When closing flipcharts, nearly all dialogue boxes displays the options in the order of Yes / No / Cancel but Inspire does it differently (and I thought Andy had sold his soul to Microsoft to correct this for cake!!). Please can this be made consistent?

This drives me nuts every time I see it.

It should, at the very least, be "Don't Save / Cancel / Save" on a Mac, with Save as the default (as it was in Activstudio). Ideally I'd like to see verbs for buttons on all operating systems.

http://www.user-interface.org/2005/12/23/dialog-boxes/

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chapter_18_section_2.html)
“Button names should be verbs that describe the action performed.”

KDE Standards (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/dialogs/simple.html)
“Instead of labeling the OK option “OK”, it is better to provide options that are named in a way that describes what will happen when they are pressed.”

Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch08c.asp)
“The label for a command button should describe the button’s action. Aim for the shortest possible label; one word is best.”

Gnome (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-buttons.html)
“Label all buttons with imperative verbs, using header capitalization”


Also, (and this is a minor one!) why do we have inactive title bar buttons on this and many (but not all) modal dialogs?
http://www.cowandilla.sa.edu.au/mark/inspiresavedialog.jpg

Thanks,
Mark