On 02/12/03 23:41, alsuba said...
I am happy
to see good statements about TSU3000 and when
I see some -ve statements, then I take it as "some
more work to do to improve TSU3000".
I just made a forcefull comment on some more work for you.
The first problem I have is I use a Mac, I have no desire to ever touch a PC. My take on PENG is that it suffers a lot from being a PC program. Anyone starting with a Mac program would expect a whole raft of standard (and just plain sensible) behaviours, which just do not happen with PENG (or old PE). My comment was Tonto is so much better that PE/PENG, you'd do well to see what that does and try and do that.
Its very basic behaviours, things like consistancy and transparancy. With PENG I'm just never sure what's going to happen when I do something. If I copy an object, what and I copying. Buttons sometimes copy with actions, sometimes don't, they seem to copy with codes and not with jumps. Is there any logic to that?
The most basic thing you could impliment to make things so much easier is the paste funcction that Tonto uses. You can choose exactly what you want to paste. Do you want to paste the actions, the bitmaps, the label? You can paste any or all of those.
The functions of even the most basic graphics programs would be useful. There are no alignment and distribution tools. Grouping is limited and inconsitant. It seems you can have only one grouped object on a page, why? I'd like to group a sub panel, and just paste it to all the places I need to use it, I can't do that. It'd be even better if I could use a link to an object like that. Have a sub panel, put it every where you want, then if you update the original panel, all the copies update in the same way.
Another basic thing is deselection. I can't work out a way to deselect one item out of a multiple selection. If you want to work with all but one object, select all and then deselect one will do it.
It'd also help if you took out the bugs, so it didn't keep crashing, and I'd really like it if it did not corrupt my PCF file and kill 2 hours of work. (That'll teach me to save, not save as.) If you simply saved a backup of the old file you'd have saved me there.
There are lots of things I don't like about PE/PENG, I just can't think of them all now. Basically, take a look at Tonto, its just so far ahead in usability its not even funny.