[news.eclipse.tools.ve] Re: VE development plan

[alain.helfenstein@xxxxxxxxxx (Alain )]

Hi Yves

We are very pleased to hear about the Visual Editor?s come-back!

We are building a BPM Platform based on eclipse and the Visual Editor. To 
be exact, we use the ULC Visual editor extension of canoo witch is based 
on the Visual Editor. Our tool, the Xpert.ivy Designer 4.x, enables you 
also, to compose visually our user interface panels.
For this purpose we use the Visual Editor, witch is fully integrated into 
our product.

You asked for the most important features. Here is a list of the most 
important Visual Editor features in our point of view.

1. Stability: the VE crashes at the moment too often. It is very hard to 
find the reasons for the crashes. We think that it has to do with the 
synchronisation of the models, or it is a problem with the proxy 
factories. Once the VE is corrupted, one has to clean all the VE caches 
manually, in order to get the VE back to business.

2. Performance: the time until a panel is opened is too long. Users have 
the feeling, that something went wrong. The time after dropping a widget 
until the VE response again to user input, is also very too long.

3. It would be very handy, if there is a extension point to hook in while 
the widget dropping onto the VE, in order to show a own window where the 
user can enter some properties.

4. Bug - if you have two panels open in the VE, and the first one is 
embedded in the second one. Then alter both of them, a error occurs.

Could you please send me your comment about our priority list?
Thanks in advance,
Alain. 

Alain Helfenstein 
dipl.Ing. FH in Informatik

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