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Re: Ideas for partbin group sorting
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Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:47:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Roland Melkert wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I've been working on my LDraw editor during my vacation, and I'm wondering on
> how to populate the partbin by default.
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> The general mechanics are done and I only need to 'sort' the library so it's
> handy to use during editing.
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> I got the 'standard' by category groups but most of the more usable are huge
> (300+ parts). So I think i should also provide a more sorted collection of bins.
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> I was thinking something like 'Plane bricks (no stickers patterns etc)', 'All
> 1x1 brick variants' etc. 'Techic pins', 'technic gears', 'technic bricks', etc
> etc etc. these can then be organized in a tree manner.
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> But although my editor supports an unlimited amount of (extendability) bin
> groups, this might generate too many groups.
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> I'm also open for people wanting to help (dummy) test the 'basic basic' version
> I'm hoping to finish this month.
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> If anyone is interested helping with ether testing or the part bin please
> response here, or email me directly.
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> Thanks
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> Roland
Hi,
I can suggest that using subcategories to filter out parts could be the right
way, even if you can first display all parts of a specified category, and let
the user refine the search by filtering on subcategories.
You may also consider creating your own (or user own sub category) by simply
specifying a word that must match in part description.
For example: when you show the "brick" category, then you can allow user to
choose among some subcategories like "round", "curved", "slope" and, even more
useful, by brick dimension "1 x", "2 x", "n x", or let the user search the
specified category by a word in the part description.
I use a mix of these methods in my SR3DBuilder application and, IMPO, it is
very, very useful.
The same way I find useful a simple search inside description, especially when I
don't know how a part is categorized.
Some consideration about interface also:
I have not seen yours, but I found very, very annoying having to scroll along a
listbox, or even worse a group listbox where you have to expand groups to show
subgroups and then collapse them or you can't understand where you are since the
list is too long!
The problem, in both cases, is to balance the number of click you need to find
the required part and the amount of the screen required to display items.
Also consider that the most frequently used parts should be the more accessible:
it doesn't mind if you need 15 secs or more to find the "trash-bin", but you
must need no longer than 3 sec to find the 1 x 1 plate round.
Hope these hints can help you.
And I'm very interested in testing your software ;-)
Sergio
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| (...) <snip> (...) Yes that's what I was thinking too, but eventually I decided to make it 100% customizable, all groups are defined by ini files users themself can extend or change. All those groups are based on filtering rules or static part (...) (13 years ago, 16-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Hello all, I've been working on my LDraw editor during my vacation, and I'm wondering on how to populate the partbin by default. The general mechanics are done and I only need to 'sort' the library so it's handy to use during editing. I got the (...) (13 years ago, 15-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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