[Babase] Re: Enhancements to Ranker

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 22:35:52 EST 2007


I've been making changes and cleaning up the ranker code on and off
whenever I find the time. I should be able to roll out a new version in
a couple of weeks, which will 1) fix the bug in interaction matrix,
2) allow a date range rather than a single month, 3) make the matrix
display tigher, 4) support printing to text, and 5) support saving/restoring
the state of the ranker program to a local XML file.

--- Jun Y.

On Dec 4, 2007 10:30 AM, Karl O. Pinc <kop at meme.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/04/2007 08:31:38 AM, kfenn wrote:
> > Michael Altmann wrote:
>
> >> Alternatively place the stats in a seperate, recallable window. A
> >> 'Fit' vs
> >> '100%' zoom option might work too, but these options are less urgent.
> >>
> > That's for Duke to explain, but we were having problems not seeing
> > all the snames in the columns and rows.
>
> Sometimes there are too many individuals being ranked and the
> matrix won't fit on the screen.  This makes it difficult
> to envision the entire matrix and so to fiddle with the
> rankings.  A proposed solution was to "shrink" the window
> content to fit the screen.  This would make it
> more difficult to make any
> changes, the mouse targets would be smaller
> and perhaps the individuals names would be
> too small to read, but an easy way to flip the 'zoom'
> off and on would mitigate that.  Because the matrix
> cell content is minimal the overall
> "shape" of the matrix should remain visible when "zoomed".
>
> I imagine this would especially be a problem when the
> rankings are done for larger than 1 month (6 months)
> time period.
>
> Another thought.  Using greyscale/color in the matrix
> as background or instead displaying digits would make
> the matrix even easier to visualize when "zoomed".
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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