Saturday, March 03, 2007
New Presentation DSL Designer
One of the first task after the beta release was to redefine the Presentation Model Designer (the one under the "Layout" node in the solution explorer).
It should be intuitive, useful and simpler.
As you can see, we were very uncomfortable with the ease-of-use of the 0.8 version, but it was just the first presentation designer version.
The Presentation Model Designer is also made with the DSL Tools, and in the next released version, will looks something like this.
The new features include:
- . Screen resolution design-time testing. It allows you to change the target screen resolution and see how it looks.
- . Transitions were included in the model itself as arrows... It's far more intuitive!
- . Area control was merged with the area definition in order to make it simpler to understand.
- . Propagation rules were removed. Now you should set the landmarks and/or the propagating child (the model is still using propagation rules, but you don't have to care about it anymore). The landmarks are shown in the diagram, decorating the area with the navigational element icon.
- . You can define visual effects (fx) for any transitions, like in Power Point. This feature will change the world ;)
- . All the diagram decorators can be shown/hidden with in one-click. The decorators are: Docking, Transitions, Effects, Area names, Constrains, Landmarks and Propagation rules. In this way, you can focus in the specific aspects you are modeling at each moment.
Labels: DSL Tools, Guilder, Himalia
# posted by leovernazza : 3/03/2007 01:16:00 PM
