[pmwiki-users] Re: [Off-list] Re: PmWikiDraw - A new future?

Ciaran ciaranj at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 03:37:36 CST 2005


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:22:20 +0100, chr at home.se <chr at home.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Ciaran wrote:
> 
> > I've sent you an invite, you should be able to set this up for her and
> > retrospectively change the email address...
> 
> Thanks :-)
> 
> > Ironically after spending the weekend playing with JGraphPad I've
> > decided that I don't actually like it! the interface feels quite
> > clunky and not as responsive.  After playing with it for some time,
> > I've come to the conclusion that pmwikidraw differs [critically] in
> > the following ways
> >
> >  * Lack of Zoom support
> >  * Lack of proper scaling support +
> >  * No gradient fills +
> >  * No arrow-head choice. +
> >  * No PNG support +
> >  * No SVG export
> >  * Confusing text support. +
> 
> I haven't used JGraphPad but a few other drawing tools and they are often
> quite different in how you use them, meaning it takes a while to know how
> to use them efficiently.
> 
> > However! PmWikiDraw is a damn sight easier to use and a lot more
> > responsive, it also weighs in at about a 1/3 of the download size of
> > JGraphPad [JGraph on its own is smaller, but JGraphPad has a chunk of
> > dependancies]
> 
> Maybe you should help them improve JGraphPad instead, make it lean and
> mean ;-)
> 
> > I'm now undecided again :) JGraphPad wasn't as good as it first
> > looked, in fact in a lot of ways I prefer PmWikiDraw, but its
> > perfectly possible that this is user-bias <g> *sigh*
> 
> Well, why not look at JGraphPad as you've looked at PmWikiDraw... what
> would it take to make it as snappy/nice as PmWikiDraw? Would it be
> possible to improve JGraphPad instead?  If not, you might prefer to stay
> with PmWikiDraw. If you prefer working on your own, stay with
> PmWikiDraw... if you want to try working with other developers, go with
> JGraphPad. Above all, don't forget that you're doing this for your own
> amusement (well, that's what I assume anyway:-)  So do what feels best for
> you. Maybe you can read through some archive with conversations from the
> JGraphPad-people and see if they seem nice/reasonable/interesting to work
> with?
> 
> If you have never worked in a development group, it'll probably be quite a
> new experience (good or bad...).
> 
> /Christian
> 
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So basically do what I want to do <g>, sounds good! I'll spend some
more time toying with JGraphPad, but so far I'm not convinced by it :(

-- 
- Ciaran
(I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants
one, gets one)




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