Probably because it leads us to Margaritaville. I will ignore that when I spoke to the original developers of the Developer Studio After their presentation at the 2007 RUG in Vancouver, was that we would never be able to use it on a laptop, need more real estate. Apparently they took notes and didn't listen.
I use a 27" screen at 1920X1080. I noticed 30 years ago that UNIX programmers were always in the highest resolution, meaning micro dots that normal humans couldn't distinguish from morse code. When my new HDMI KVMS arrives I will try At a higher resolution and see if my eyes can still read it. That being said, I can almost use the Developer Studio at that resolution now that I am used to it. So, yes, more features in it than the admin tool but, it is still much slower to use to develop, and my 2 wishes( I could really use at least 5): 1) I can reduce the screen by a lot just by having the old tabbed area with field properties 2) I would love to have an easy search by field id again. I am sure it is buried somewhere, I think I found it for a while, but I'm not sure I don't understand why there isn't a "classic view" that reduces the real estate needed like the old admin tool, that is what these fancy New tools were supposed to provide, a customizable Admin Tool, or at least I thought that is what they advertised? Choosing fields for stuff in active links takes 10 times longer, much I used to do in seconds takes 10s of minutes. OF course the plan was we wouldn't be modifying the system like we used to, but the power of the ARSystem has always been rapid development. Dan p.s. generally I use my Dell Studio XPS9100 with 12 gig memory, an ATI Radeon HD5670 display adapter, and a Dell 2709W monitor all of which should be handle any single application GUI -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: March 28, 2012 6:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DevStudio Tool I totally just made up that word 'Pixelville' without even realizing it.. It sounds kind of cool though :-) -----Original Message----- From: Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:19 PM To: ARS List Subject: Re: DevStudio Tool Yup that s what I learnt too a little hard way around.. Get as much 'real estate' in 'Pixelville' as you can afford.. And Susan, 2 GB would not quite be enough if you attempt some expensive operations.. There are certain operations that could be a resource hog.. for e.g. The Expand All Panels.. you could potentially have your client freeze on you for a brief time if you tried that with 2 GB and had something like 10 set field actions in your If and Else.... Joe -----Original Message----- From: strauss Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:12 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DevStudio Tool IMHO, it wasn't worth the enormous interface change/learning curve/pure aggravation - UNTIL - the implementation of overlays. Only when you reach the point where you are converting your customizations to overlays does the new tool start to make sense, as does the updated Migrator which also takes some getting used to. So going from the 7.1.00.02 Admin Tool to the 7.6.04.01 DevStudio was worth the effort because of the corresponding sea change in object management requirements. Overlay implementation was the logical point to change the tool set. Note that you had to have the Admin Tool available to perform tasks on base forms that DevStudio would not do, while converting. As to screen size, I got a 27" iMac specifically to run this thing, on Windows 7 x64 under Parallels (2498 x 1367), but not until after I had already slogged through most of the customizations on XP x86 with a 24" screen (1920 x 1200). Screen size/resolution is absolutely a big factor with this real estate hog. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carin Sinclair Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DevStudio Tool Hello there all, We would like to have your input on a Question. How happy are you with DevStudio 7.5-7.6 to do customizations? Do you miss the Admintool? Are you satisfied with the DevStudio functionality, usability and reliability. If there was one thing you would change about DevStudio, what would it be? Thank you Carin _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
