Bug #57464 | Support more layout tools | ||
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Submitted: | 14 Oct 2010 18:13 | Modified: | 14 Oct 2010 19:01 |
Reporter: | Tony Freixas | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Verified | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Workbench: Modeling | Severity: | S4 (Feature request) |
Version: | 5.2.28CE | OS: | Any |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any | |
Tags: | layout |
[14 Oct 2010 18:13]
Tony Freixas
[14 Oct 2010 18:21]
Johannes Taxacher
these features should not be very hard to implemented as plugins
[14 Oct 2010 19:01]
Tony Freixas
@Johannes Taxacher: That's what I thought until I looked at the choices of scripting languages and submitted bug #57460. It's not hard IF you know Python or Lua AND you know all the interfaces needed to peform the operation and provide a decent GUI for it. I hope you meant that it won't be hard for someone on the Workbench team to write the plugin. Note that I mention providing a decent GUI. Selecting a set of objects and then going to the Plugins menu and selecting a function from there is not the proper solution. When someone selects multiple objects, a toolbar should appear with icons for each of the layout options. The Photoshop GUI would be a good one to copy. These layout options should be 1st class tools with the icons appearing (or always present and grayed out when not applicable) so that people are aware that the exist. If this can be done using the plugin interface, that would be great. If it's a simple matter for someone to do, so much the better. I'll expect the plugin tomorrow. :-)