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[Marwein-users] Marwein Feature: select and move multiple elements

[Ute P. <up...@1u...>]

Hi,

I found out that the marwein graph application already supports selecting multiple
elements and moving them all together... what was missing was that the selected elements
were indicated as such.
You can select elements by holding down "control" and clicking on them, or by clicking the
mouse somewhere inside the window and drawing a rectangle around the items to select.
Now I implemented that they change their appearance (dashed, thick border) once they're
selected (cvs version only, no new release yet).
To move them, just click on one of the tasks and drag them to where you want them.
To de-select the items, just click anywhere inside the painting area. To de-select a
single item, "control"-click on it.
I'll update the documentation soon.

Best regards,
ute

[Marwein-users] New release: 0.1.1

[Ute P. <up...@1u...>]

Hi,

there's a new marwein release, version 0.1.1. It contains a bugfix concerning
the branched test cases, and I finally changed and checked all startup scripts
to work fine with the cvs checkout as well as with source and binary
distributions available on sourceforge.

I updated the project's homepage and it really contains some information now.
Take a look at http://marwein.sf.net

Best regards,
Ute

[Marwein-users] marwein handles branched tests now

[Ute P. <up...@sc...>]

Hi all,

Marwein can handle branched tests now. If you have two possible paths branching
 from one node, two test cases will be run, one for each branch. This should
make "writing" tests simpler because one doesn't need to duplicate the starting
nodes any more.

by the way, sourceforge changed their cvs server url some time ago, so you can't
update your local repository without changing the CVS/Root files. You can either
use the attached shell script to update your cvs root (call in you marwein
working directory; don't forget to change the script so it contains your own
sourceforge user name), or you can delete your local version and check out a
fresh version like this:

 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@ma...:/cvsroot/marwein co -P
marwein

or like this if you're a developer:

 cvs -z3 -d:ext:dev...@ma...:/cvsroot/marwein co -P
modulename

Best regards,
ute

[Marwein-users] wiki/documentation

[Ute P. <up...@sc...>]

Hi,

endlich hab ich mal geschafft, das wiki einzurichten, wo die Doku für Marwein hin soll:
http://oss.schlund.de/marwein - mehr als "da sein" tut es allerdings noch nicht :-(

wenn jemand die Schreibwut kriegt, dann soll er sich bei mir melden, dann richte ich
ihm/ihr einen Account ein und dann kann er  drauf los dokumentieren :-)

Schöne Grüße,
ute

[Marwein-users] new features

[Ute P. <up...@sc...>]

Hi,

I've created a changelog.txt file in the project's root directory. Here's the latest 
changes (please write new changes at the top of the file):

-- copied vertices appear next to the original (not in the top-left
    corner of the window)

-- regexp is painted with multi-line text

-- disabled tasks are painted grey with the new TaskPainter. The
   TaskPaitner is used for all new files by default. you can convert
   your old files to use the new painter with the help of the script
   bin/convertOldXml.sh that converts a given xml test file to use the
   new painter. the (true) or (false) behind the task name which
   indicates if the task is enabled or disabled is omitted.

-- there's a new preference that configures whether the user is asked
    if he wants to save his file before a new file is loaded or the
    program closed. unfortunately this change made it necessary to move
    the user preferences to a new Preferences package which means all
    previous preferences are lost and you have to enter them again -
    sorry!

-- edges contain objects, too (works only for new files, or for newly
    created edges, similar to the new Task painter feature). The plan
    is to be able to enable/disable edges and to not follow disabled
    edges during a test run.

-- regexp in the RegexpMatcher are checked for correct syntax and if
    there's an error, a messge is displayed. If you have trouble
    reading an existing test file that contains an invalid regexp,
    please let me know (shouldn't happen, but ...)

-- new layouter: column layouer - just aligns all items along a
    vertical line. You can layout the graph by right-clicking on the
    graph background and selecting "Graph Layout >" from the popup
    menu. You can then either select a layouter from the list or enter
    the name of a layouter class (fully qualified including package
    name).

best regards,
ute