Through the Interface

5 responses to “API wishlist surveys for Autodesk products”

1. 

   John Holmes

   June 2, 2011 at 10:35 am

   Once again.....

   Better property palette support.....

   If you whine long enough, do you win 🙂

   For a hack programmer like myself, the current implementation is just too difficult to implement for day to day programming. That level of integration (support on the AutoCAD property palette) truly would bring my application to a professional level. Users have expectations; in particular, the ability to edit properties on the property palette is one of them. It's high time this gets properly addressed.

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2. 

   Kean Walmsley

   June 2, 2011 at 11:36 am

   Keep whining (if that's what you want to call it), John!

   Sometimes the reason we're not visibly resolving something isn't because it's not important, it's that deeper infrastructure work is needed for us to provide a holistic solution (one example is Overrules, our main answer to the custom objects from .NET question).

   We definitely hear your need (and feel you pain), but please don't stop reminding us until we get there.

   Kean

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3. 

   Danny Polkinhorn

   July 2, 2011 at 1:34 am

   In my survey, I totally forgot to request the ability to manage options, basically anything in the Options dialog. I have a routine that resets a user's profile, and the only way to do it (without lisp) is via ActiveX. I would prefer a .NET solution.

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4. 

   Nick Hall

   September 29, 2011 at 3:55 pm

   It was mentioned in the survey, but I only saw this today

   RE: API documentation, there's a lot of sense in this article

   37signals.com/svn/posts/3018-api-design-for-humans

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5. 

   Kean Walmsley

   September 29, 2011 at 4:51 pm

   Thanks, Nick.

   Kean

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