I have to agree with Scott's review and add these other comments.
I initially saw a list of modules on the lower part of the screen and
tried to drag and drop them onto the cabinet rows. Nope. I then tried
to resize the list of modules to see more on the screen at once.
Nope. I then tried to resize the cabinet rows. Nope. I then tried to
add or delete module rows. Nope. Eventually I clicked on the little
negative signs above each cabinet row and saw the popup for
installing modules. Why would you click on a negative sign to add
something? I then installed numerous 2U modules into 1U wide spaces.
How would I physically achieve that?
Sorry to whoever wrote this, but speaking as the QA guy, this is
going into the trash.
At 12:02 AM -0500 2005/08/23, Scott K Warren wrote:
>I hope I don't offend anybody, but this is not my idea of good software.
>
>It's a FileMaker "runtime" application that leaves a lot to be desired
>both
>in user interface and in functionality. For instance, it does not allow
>you
>to move modules around to experiment with physical layouts or to
>specify a
>specific configuration of cabinets to lay out in, and it's not easy to
>add
>multiple copies of a module, to delete multiple modules, or to get
>summaries
>such as # of modules of each type or total power consumption. Its menus
>are
>full of irrelevant FileMaker commands and its own graphical layout is
>both
>too small for me and not resizable at all.
>
>But hey, it sort of works, it's free, and I'm not volunteering to write
>a
>better one, so some people might find it useful.
>
>skw
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>On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Paul Schreiber wrote:
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>> http://128.40.57.17/steven/motmulator.zip
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>> OK, this is an UNTESTED "module planner" for Mac OSX only.
>>
>> Somebody load it up (it's big, like 20MB) and tell me if it's worth
>> perusing and doing a PC version. Maybe post a few screen shots?
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>> Also if there are any PHP/MySQL programmers here, contact me off list.
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>> Paul S.
>> ack...software.....
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