Re: [nv-l] Layout in rulesets

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

No, there is not.  The editor reads
in the stored ruleset file and builds an iconic representation of it in
the workspace.  The layout algorithm is optimized to display the contents
of the ruleset in a small amount of space so that you have a lot of room
to add things, by drag and drop from the templates.  When you edit
an existing ruleset, and you click and hold the middle mouse button to
drag an existing icon over to a new location so that you can work on it,
that positioning is just temporary, for the life of the edit session .
 It is not a permanent part of the ruleset file which gets stored.
  Only the contents of what you have built are stored.    
It  would take a very large re-design of the facility to store and
use that temporary positioning as a permanent thing.  Not only would
the editor have to be changed, but nvcorrd as well, since he also reads
in the ruleset, and he'd have to be made to skip over whatever X and Y
coordinates were now a part of the file.

But I am curious why this should be
such an issue for you.  In the seven years I have been working on
NetView,  no one has ever asked me that question before.  Most
rulesets are built, tested, edited once or twice, tested until they are
shown to work, and that's it.  Once they work, there is little left
to do.  You must be building something very large or very complex
for this issue to a be a real problem.  Or am I missing something?

Regards

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

alejandro.gabay@reuters.com
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09/01/2004 11:23 AM

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Subject	[nv-l] Layout in rulesets

Hi All, is there any way to disable the auto layout in the ruleset editor?
It is really annoying that every time we open the ruleset to edit it the
manually, the ruleset editor replaces the manually set by another one created
by its own.
I am running 7.1.4 FP2 on Solaris 8.

B. Regards & THKS.
Alejandro Gabay




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