[mapguide-users] Maestro 3.0 test build #1

[Jason Birch]

Wow, very pretty so far, and I really like the list of new features that
you've chosen to implement.  Some real productivity enhancers in there.

The drag-and-drop feature source creation idea is amazing and will save a
LOT of time when putting together test cases.

Can you think of a way of allowing drag-and-drop to Copy in addition to the
current Move?  I'd love to have something like Windows' right-click drag,
but that may be too complex...

The "New Item" dialog is interesting, but requires three more clicks and a
lot more thought than the current fly-out menu.  A couple things may
streamline this experience a bit: allowing double-click to act as "Add", and
defaulting to the category that the user selected last.  A bit more
radically, perhaps instead of categories you could allow the user to select
a target site version (maybe even when connecting to a site), which would
default to the greatest version the currently connected site supports, and
then present the highest version templates that this target version
supports.  User defined templates of acceptable version levels could be
displayed inline with the stock templates, or in a separate pane below them.

Jason

On 20 October 2010 23:13, Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I've put up the first test build of Maestro 3.0 for download
>
>
> http://download.osgeo.org/mapguide/maestro/MapGuide%20Maestro%203.0.0.5311%20test1.zip
>
> I'll preface all of this with your standard warning:
>
> HERE BE DRAGONS! THIS BUILD SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ALPHA-QUALITY AND SHOULD
> ONLY BE USED FOR TESTING PURPOSES AND FEEDBACK. DO NOT USE THIS ON
> PRODUCTION MAPGUIDE SERVERS!
>
> With that out of the way and your knowledge/acceptance of the above fact
> when testing this build, here's a summary of some of the new cool stuff in
> Maestro 3.0:
>
>  - Specialized editors for
>   - Print Layout
>   - Drawing Source
>  - Support for DWF and SQLite Load Procedures (SQLite load procedures only
> available in MGOS 2.2/MGE 2011)
>  - Support for previewing resources, whether in the specialized editor or
> the Generic XML editor
>  - Multi-selection support for the Site Explorer. Yes, you can now finally
> copy/cut/delete/validate *multiple* resources at once!
>  - Ability to create new resources in specific versions of their respective
> xsd schema.
>  - Support for browsing DWF symbol libraries
>  - View outbound http requests made by the site connection
>  - Drag and drop support
>   - Drag/drop SDF/SHP/SQLite files to create feature sources with these
> files embedded
>   - Drag/drop XML documents to create the corresponding resource
>  - Enhanced resource validation
>   - WebLayout
>     - Check for duplicate command names
>     - Check for orphaned menu items
>     - Check for duplicate property references in search commands
>   - Load Procedure
>     - Check for non-existent source files
>     - Warn about unsupported options in Maestro
>   - Redundant messages are discarded from the final result
>  - Local Feature Source Preview is now a separate application
> (MaestroFsPreview.exe)
>
> Note that Maestro 3.0 is still lacking some features from 2.x as they are
> still in the process of being ported over:
>
>  - MgCooker
>  - Official MapGuide API support
>  - Custom user resource templates
>  - Raster layer editor
>  - Package editor
>  - Server statistics monitor
>  - Fusion editor
>  - Specialized feature source editors for other providers
>  - Possibly others
>
> Some other general notes when testing this build:
>
>  - Found a bug? Ask yourself: Did this bug exist in Maestro 2.x, and hence
> is a known problem?
>  - Similarly, that Maestro 2.x issue you filed in Trac some time ago: Has
> it
> been fixed or successfully worked around with this build?
>  - So generally speaking, it really helps to have an existing installation
> of Maestro 2.x on hand (current release being 2.1.4) as a baseline
> comparison to whether something has been fixed or broken.
>  - All existing Maestro tickets will be re-targeted to the maestro-3.0
> milestone
>
> For those on non-Windows systems: Sorry, this build doesn't currently work
> properly in Mono due to some nasty XML serialization bugs. This will be
> addressed in future builds.
>
> Of course, general feedback is always welcome
>
> - Jackie
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