NetRemote Designer 2.0.0 BETA

[jwilson56]

Not all and not all the time... this crashed it just now

Fordrat8\1-WireNetwork\160008014D096C10\Temperature.UnitsLong

[Rob H]

Thanks.

Do you get an error report or does it just fall over straight away?

[Rob H]

Not been able to reproduce this here yet I'm afraid.

[jwilson56]

Tried it again this morning... didn't crash... so its going to be tuff... I will try and gather more info the next time it does.

[VSDomotics]

When will it be possible to turn of those small pictures around the selected objects for grouping and spacing. The get always in the way and i have never used them?
Please make it a switchable toolbar, or is this already possible?

Another very annoying thing is the 'jumping' of the screen when you select an item and the whole CCF does not fit on the screen (eg the sliders are shown). Zooming is no option because the picture gets too small. It messes up the CCF often because you accidentely reposition items. Can't this be solved?

I have a suggestion to always leave the new version/build in the first post (like for the Girder changes). Now I always have to look through all post to see if there is something new and what has changed.

[Rob H]

The first of these is very low on the priority list.

I have tried to fix the jumping bug, believe me - and will try again when I get a chance.

[VSDomotics]

Rob, I know your pount of view about these small icons blurring my screen. When you are the only one implementing these automatic appearing icons everywhere you click, why do you still think it is a good idea?

Or do you know other programs who have similar behaviour and am i missing something?

[Rob H]

I got the idea from Mark Miller's talk on Good UI design - see http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=112
if you don't want to watch the whole thing (although I would definitely recommend watching all of this and part 2) then it's somewhere in the last 10 minutes of the video.

Not many programs have similar behaviour that I'm aware of - Word 2007 does have a palette that fades in above the current selection though. It would be nice to have these controls fade in, but that would require a fair bit more work. Since Promixis earns no revenue from NetRemote Designer there's no point in implementing it other than my own personal satisfaction.

So far, you're the only person complaining about this - doesn't mean you're wrong of course.

[VSDomotics]

Rob, the link does not work.

BTW I have paid for NRD. And I personally prefer a good paid app than a bad free app. I don't mean your app is bad but it seems our influence and input has become less important because it is free now. Thats a pity.

[Rob H]

The link works fine here, not sure why it isn't working for you.

No, you paid for NRD 1 (possibly 1.1 - I can't remember when we stopped charging for it).

I'm quite willing to listen to good ideas for improvements, but I just don't think that reintroducing a toolbar to replace those floating buttons is a good idea, certainly not good enough to devote a couple of hours to purely because you alone don't like them. You say that you haven't used them - why not try using them for a while?