Re: A first impressions with using MrProject

Le Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:06:47PM +0200, Aivo Kalu:
> 
> Hi,

[ Please note, I'm not a developer of MrProject, just a user ]
> 
> 4. You cannot set task to start from random moment in time. It would be
> great, if one could move the task with mouse (perhaps with middle button ?)
> in time to start earlier or later. At the moment I would need to put
> addtional task in front of it and sent the task to depend on it and set a
> lag between end and start. Not a very good way. 

You can do so by changing the start time in the task list. A simple
access to the task editor from the graphical part of the gantt chart
should solve your problem.

But, in my mind, it's only a partial solution: if you add then
any task to your project, this on will be frozen.

I see no good solution except:
- using the calendar to state that the N next days following this
  task are NonWorking days
- creating a "fake" small task as you did.

> 6. When it comes to actually showing the project to others, I currently have
> only option to hook up projector to my laptop and actually show the running
> program, or to make screenshot of it and print it out. I know you are
> planning the printing functionality before 1.0, but perhaps it would be
> simpler to have some sort of HTML export possibility and then printing from
> the browser instead ? In HTML you could have some JavaScript pop-up windows
> also, so that when people look at the project with their browsers they could
> get additional information from tasks (perhaps the notes section ?) and from
> ressources. 

I see no good way to produce a gantt chart in "Pure HTML", except via
a picture. I tried to write a little C program based on libmrproject
to draw it, it's not fully usable, but start to works. The main
flaw is the running time: when you use "large" projects, with about
10 "main task" having each about 10 "sub tasks", and a good nomber
of relations, then, you'll to wait for about 1 minute for the program
to load the project, and you'll have to load the project for each click
if it's a CGI script...

And, of course, the produced picture is rather large.

And, sad thing, usual browsers (mozilla, opera, and so on) have very
poor features in printing large pictures.

I should write a small plugin to create directly a PS file :-)

Regards,

	Benjamin.