[kepler-dev] Aesthetic comments

[Edward A. Lee]

I'm not totally sure, but I seem to recall that if the bounding
box of the icon is any multiple of 5 (5 something... I'm not even
sure what the units are), then alignments will all work...

Edward


Matt Jones wrote:
> Thanks, Edward.  I'd always wondered about why the connections
> wouldn't be straight.  I'll enter a bug for this.  Do the icons have
> to be the exact size as the Vergil defaults, or does some scalar
> multiple of the size work as well?
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Edward A. Lee <eal at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> I've noticed a couple of things about Kepler:
>>
>> 1) The Kepler icons seem to be sized so that Vergil's snap-to-grid
>>   doesn't really work.  If I connect an output port to a relation
>>   to an input port, I can't get the connections to give me straight
>>   lines.  This is rather unfortunate, as it makes all Kepler diagrams
>>   look a bit sloppy.  This can be fixed by resizing the Kepler icons
>>   to match the default size in the basic Vergil editor for Ptolemy II.
>>
>> 2) Some of the demos put up unlabeled plots, and several have displays
>>   that cover each other up.  It's pretty easy to label the plots,
>>   position and size all the displays, and save the model.
>>
>> Edward
>>
>>
>>
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