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Re: Ideas for partbin group sorting
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:35:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Sergio Reano wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Roland Melkert wrote:
> > 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. • <snip>
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> 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.
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> I use a mix of these methods in my SR3DBuilder application and, IMPO, it is
> very, very useful.
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 references.
The problem is getting a nice 'default' collection of groups for the 'out of the
box' usage.
I might add aditional gui filtering to the group display later though.
> The same way I find useful a simple search inside description, especially when I
> don't know how a part is categorized.
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> 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!
I don't like to scroll ether, that's why made the bin hierarchical, so you can
use 'small' groups.
> 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.
Indeed not finding parts can be very annoying, especially if you don't know the
name of it. The bin also includes a special history group, so over time often
used parts can be found there as well.
> Hope these hints can help you.
> And I'm very interested in testing your software ;-)
Thanks, but I suspect my way of editing stuff is more like mlcad then your
sr3dbuilder. But the more the merrier :)
> Sergio
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