[Babase] Re: Enhancements to Ranker

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Wed Dec 5 10:53:11 EST 2007


Thanks for the update Jun. We are looking forward to it.
Susan

On 4 Dec 2007, at 22:35, Jun Yang wrote:

> 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>
>> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>                   -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>
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