[mapguide-users] Maestro 3.0 test build #1

Thu Oct 21 07:20:30 EDT 2010

I'm also finding the way that new resources are created a little hard to get
used to.

In the previous version of Maestro, you could right-click at a particular
level in the tree, choose New Item, and it would create the resource there
immediately.  With the preview version, it creates a new resource in the
editor but doesn't add it to the library (I assume it's either in memory or
saving to the session) and then when I go to save it I have to hunt my way
down the resource tree to the location I want to save it in.

I can understand not wanting to save the resource to the library until you
have at least a name for it, but having to drill down on save is pretty
frustrating on highly-nested resource trees.

Jason

On 21 October 2010 04:07, Jason Birch wrote:

> 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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