Spatial Wish List for 2015...

Here are my top two spatial wish list candidates for 2015. Feel free to join in!
#1. Allow DBAs to create and rebuild spatial indexes in any schema (as long as you have create any index rights), as you can with any other index type.
Currently, even with ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA=theowner; you cannot do this as SYS. As a DBA do not want to know / maintain all these schema owner passwords. Using the hash / resetting password process can work, but is a pain when you need to do a large number of user/schemas.
#2. Reduce spatial index creation / rebuild times.
Using current map reduce techniques, R-Tree index creation times have shown a great decrease in other environments. It would be VERY helpful if a future version of Oracle also followed these techniques so that all system resources can be applied to the creation / rebuild, instead of the essentially serial process that currently exists. I.E.: Parallel bulk-loading of spatial data with MapReduce: An R-tree case - Springer
Bryan

Hi Bryan,
Nice idea. Maybe it will achieve something, maybe not, but at least we've tried
@Paul: We are. But there are also some Oracle folks on here, so maybe we are being heard.
What I would like to see is even more integration. At the moment there still are a lot of exceptions for spatial data (try creating a spatial index without the privilege to create a sequence, for example). All those MDRT tables as well: I understand that they are necessary, but could they please be hidden somehow? Don't get me wrong, I still think Oracle has one of the best and most elegant solutions for storing spatial data ( and has had for the past decade really), but there still are enough differences between spatial and "normal" data that it takes quite a lot of extra knowledge to be able to deal with it properly. Which is not necessarily a bad thing by the way, but it can be aggravating at times.
Secondly: There still are quite a few spatial functions that are in Java. I can understand that it is easier that way, but it does impact performance. If all of the spatial functions could be moved closer to the core, it would be easier for us to achieve great performance (because it would be much more under our own control).
There's a ton of other things that I would like, but these two touch the core. Everything else is either laziness or being a kid in a candy store
Happy holidays everyone,
Stefan

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One User's iPhoto Wish List:
Your first priority is to contact the creators of iPhoto Diet and iPhoto Library Manager, pay them lots of money for their work, and then incorporate all the features of their shareware apps into iPhoto itself.
This would add to iPhoto features it should have had for a long time now, including:
1) An option to delete unrotated originals.
It's silly to take up space on a hard drive with copies of files whose only difference is that one is correctly rotated and the other is not. Give us the choice to dispense with the unrotated ones.
2) An option to delete the originals for any selected file(s).
I know that "always keeping a copy of the original" is a sacred cornerstone of the iPhoto app, but SOMETIMES, after I've edited, resized, or done whatever to a given file, I feel I've created the new master file, and I truly really honestly would like the ability to just dispose of the now redundant original and get the space back on my hard drive.
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3) Ways to manage multiple libraries on multiple machines with multiple users.
I have a 12GB (and growing) iPhoto Library on my G5 PowerMac. My wife's G5 iMac has a subset of that Library (about half the size), with the same Roll designations, Comments info, and Keyword assignments, along with some of the same Albums plus some unique Albums. I use iPhoto Library Manager to do this, but I should be able to do it using iPhoto itself.
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4) Ability to correct and change the actual EXIF date/time info.
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Give us the choice to NOT create a dupe original when a file is viewed in an external editor but no changes are made; likewise when just rotating an image within iPhoto.
6) Better sorting/display options.
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Would also like to be able to insert dividers in the Source pane to separate some of my albums into different groups, as well as a way to set bookmarks or placeholders within a Library, as a quick shortcut to an often-viewed section for example.
7) More e-mail attachment options.
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Including or not including the .jpg or .psd or .gif extension is an option when Exporting a file; why not when displaying it as well?
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11) Ability to enter partial dates.
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14) Built-in support for doing INCREMENTAL back-ups of either your entire Library -- or only the files from selected Albums -- to another hard drive.
I hope that most of these features have already been incorporated into the next release of iPhoto -- and if not, that you'll give serious consideration to implementing them as soon as possible. Your users will thank you.
John Bertram
Toronto

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How would I give this wish to apple?
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In this case, the URL is the one "Old Toad" mentioned in his post:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
Many of the major Apple apps have this direct menu link; for others you can just go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and navigate from there.
They claim to actually pay attention to this kind of user input; and I've heard people say it actually does affect how the development and implementation of new features get prioritized.
Let's hope so, anyway.

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13.     When youre going through the code doing search & replace, it should highlight, in the structure window, the name of the method that youre currently in (the place where its prompting you to replace).
14.     When youre going through the code and stopping at breakpoints, it should highlight, in the structure window, the name of the method that youre currently in (the place where its prompting you to replace).
15.     The only way to accept a suggestion from Code Insight is to press enter. It would be nice if you could also use the next logical operator like . (dot). Then the editor should insert the selected suggestion followed by . and start Code Insight again on the next level of the expression. There's already an enhancement request filed for this: #2197394
Gee, its starting to sound like I want JDev to look like Microsoft Visual Studio. A colleague just handed me Microsoft's Visual J++. I'm wondering whether to try it. I'm tempted but I'll hold off for a little bit.

Hi Mark,
Responding to the Code Insight and Code Editor areas:
5. Code Insight sometimes is hard to invoke. For example, if I have a
function, with a bunch of parameters already entered) and I click in the
argument list, nothing happens (no popup). If I hit crtl-space, it brings
up a huge list of all kinds of things that Im not interested in. What I
really want is a way to bring up the list of argument parameters.Code Insight has two flavors. One is code completion, Ctl-space, which shows you a popup list of possible completions. The other is parameter info, Ctl-shift-space, which shows you a tooltip with the list of argument parameters as appropriate. Different hot-keys. They can coexist on your screen when
appropriate (starting with 9.0.3).
Apparently the only way to do this is to get rid of all prior arguments
and the left parenthesis and retype the left paren. But then if you say,
paste in the existing arguments (which you cut to save them), then the
argument list pop-up/tool-tip disappears and youre out of luck again.We've made a lot of improvements to Code Insight for release 9.0.3. It's much stabler than in v9.0. For example, the above problem is fixed for 9.0.3 (assuming I understand your request correctly).
Basically, just have it work like Microsofts Intellisense which seems to
know more intuitively what you want and when you want it. They even have
a button on their edit toolbar which you can click when youre in an arg
list to bring up Intellisense. Id like that button in Jdev.Hmm... we hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the idea. Can't guarantee that we'll implement it, but I'll bring it up for discussion.
6. Want easy way to comment out blocks of code. E.g., highlight lines
and hit ctrl-/ and it will put a // in front of each line.#2175300. Implemented for 9.0.3.
8. Want a way to have bookmarks in the code editor. (Fix bug request
#1797151.)Implemented for 9.0.3.
10.     Upon restarting Jdeveloper, want replacement options (Single,
Global, Prompted) to remain what I selected in my prior session.Implemented for 9.0.3 as an option in the preferences for the Code Editor.
Couldn't find a specific bug number for that.
12. When I click inside a method, the name of the method (which you see
listed in the structure window) should become highlighted. Currently if
you double clicked one method in the structure window and went there but
then moused down in the code editor window and clicked in a different
function, then the function (that you left) in the structure goes from
blue highlighted to gray highlighted (fine I guess but would rather have
no highlighting ) but the new method does not become highlighted (my
gripe).
13. When youre going through the code doing search & replace, it should
highlight, in the structure window, the name of the method that youre
currently in (the place where its prompting you to replace).
14. When youre going through the code and stopping at breakpoints, it
should highlight, in the structure window, the name of the method that
youre currently in (the place where its prompting you to replace).Treating all three as a single request: Any time the cursor moves in the code editor, hilite the appropriate node in the structure pane. This actually did occur to me just recently. Filing ER 2428707 to track this request. Probably won't make it into 9.0.3.
15. The only way to accept a suggestion from Code Insight is to press
enter. It would be nice if you could also use the next logical operator
like . (dot). Then the editor should insert the selected suggestion
followed by . and start Code Insight again on the next level of the
expression. There's already an enhancement request filed for this: #2197394Won't make it into 9.0.3.
Thanks for the suggestions!
--andy
JDeveloper Team

My iWeb Wish List for '07

Just sent the following to Apple's iWeb Feedback; figured I'd post it here as well just for the heck of it.
Some of these requests may apply only to my particular -- some would say peculiar -- workflow, but I suspect there are at least a couple which other user's might share.
(using iWeb 1.1.2 under OX X 10.4.8)
One User's iWeb Wish List:
1) Option to have Comments included in Captions for online albums.
When Importing pics from iPhoto, there should be four checkboxes:
one for Image Name (i.e. Title),
one for Date,
one for Time,
and especially one for Comments!
-- allowing the user to determine which of those four bits of iPhoto info are included in the Captions for any kind of online album. It's crazy that right now I can't put up an iWeb photo page that automatically includes the Comments I've taken the time to enter in iPhoto as part of that photo's Caption online.
If iWeb wants to claim true integration with iPhoto, then this feature seems like a pre-version 1 no-brainer.
2) "Open in New Window?" option for Hyperlinks.
When designating some text or a picture as a link, PLEASE give us the option to make that link one that will open in the browser's current page (the default), OR one that will open in a NEW PAGE.
That's a basic design choice which the creator of any web page should be allowed to make.
(At least with Homepage I was able to fool it by adding
" target="_blank
to the URL I was entering, making Hompage think the addition was actually part of the URL, but causing any browser to see it as the HTML command to open the preceding link in a new window. Unfortunately I can't seem to get this trick to work in iWeb -- would love it if someone could tell me why.)
3) User-configuarable slideshows.
When I first started using iWeb, and saw how configurable the pages themselves were, I naturally searched for the Slideshow options. Just basic stuff, like the seconds per-slide duration; the kinds of transitions; the default to change slides manually or automatically; whether to have the controls and the top row of thumbs always visible or show only when you mouse over them; whether to use the reflection effect; what color background to use; the image display size -- that kind of thing. (The kind of control offered in the shareware program ShutterBug, for example.)
You already know what I found: zilch. It almost feels like two different teams developed the two parts of the program (the wonderfully-customizable Page Creator vs. the take-it-or-leave-it Slideshow) -- or maybe they just ran out of time before the iLife '06 release, and had to throw in the Slideshow part before it was ready.
4) Previewable Slideshows
And then I find that not only can I not customize the Slideshow in any way, I can't even preview it within the app itself -- I have to publish the page first, then "preview" it in a browser. This whole section of the iWeb app is definitely not ready for prime time.
5) More web viewing options.
The viewer of my iWeb photo page should be able to click on a thumbnail and have it open as either an image in its own window, OR (as is the case in HomePage) as the first frame in a slideshow.
And even when it opens as an image in a separate window, there should still be the basic <-PREV and NEXT-> buttons to allow the viewer to keep looking at the full-sized images without having to close each window and then double-click on the next thumbnail.
6) Automatic page length extension.
Would be a nice user pref to have the page height automatically adjust as new content is added, or as pix are dragged down past the current bottom of page.
7) Space-saving Import options.
In order to conserve space on our .Mac accounts, and make for better downloading times of the photo page itself, iWeb needs to offer several Import options once the desired pics from an iPhoto Library (or just from a Finder folder) have been selected:
Let users pick whether the photos will be uploaded full-size, or automatically reduced to a user-definable maximum height and/or width.
And make sure to also have (perhaps under an Advanced tab) a sliding scale of jpg quality, with an instant feedback showing what the total file size will be at that particular setting.
These size and quality parameters should be applicable either to individual files, or to the entire Import as a whole.
8) Tell us the URLs.
Simply mousing over a page or site name in the Site Organizer pane (or right-clicking on same), should reveal its full URL as currently published, and allow you to easily copy that URL to the Clipboard (and in turn Paste that URL into a document or an e-mail).
I know the iWeb URLs all follow the same naming pattern, but why not make it easier for us to access and Copy/Paste those URLs, instead of having to "figure them out"?
9) Make the Text Boxes easier to see and to move.
Right now a newly-inserted Text Box is virtually invisible, and until you actually type some text into it it's bloody hard to grab a hold of.
I'm hoping most of these features have already been incorporated into the next release of iWeb -- and if not, that you'll give serious consideration to implementing all of them as soon as possible. Your users will thank you!
John Bertram
Toronto

This is a user forum, so we can't help with this! You
can provide iWeb feedback in the File menu of the app.
Indeed -- hence the very first line of my post:
"Just sent the following to Apple's iWeb Feedback; figured I'd post it here as well just for the heck of it..."
Also why I didn't post it as a Question seeking help. Nevertheless, thanks for pointing me both to your site and the RowanCottage one. I'll check out all the iWeb tips on both.
Meanwhile...
2) "Open in New Window?" option for Hyperlinks.
Here's how to do it:
http://web.mac.com/varkgirl/iWeb/Varkgirl/Open%20links
%20in%20new%20window.html
Let's hope that any of these workarounds will soon be a thing of the past. I have to believe that the iWeb team has realized by now that giving the user (i.e. the iWeb page creator) the option to designate how each and every link should open (same page or new page) is such a basic, obvious feature that it MUST already be implemented in the next iWeb, and is only awaiting the release of iLife '07 -- or whatever the next iLife suite will be called.
6) Automatic page length extension.
Would be a nice user pref to have the page height
automatically adjust as new content is added, or as
pix are dragged down past the current bottom of
page.
Um, it does this already.
Then I must be doing something very wrong. I just tried again -- grabbed a graphic, dragged it down to the bottom of the page so that half of it was now out of site, let go and voila -- nothing. "Content Height" in the Page Inspector didn't change one pixel.
Even the "Creative" at the downtown Toronto Apple Store -- who I happened to see giving an iWeb demo/workshop the other day -- said the only way to extend the page length was to add a larger value to the Content Height box in the Inspector.
But I'd still love to know if there's a more intuitive, hands-on kind of way.
9) Make the Text Boxes easier to see and to move.
Turn on "Show Layout" in the View menu
I already did. My point was that even with "Show Layout" on, the faint grey text box that first appears is often hard to see, especially against certain backgrounds. Interestingly, that same Apple Store staffer made the exact same observation (with no prompting from me), and also commented on how the initial blank text box was also tricky to grab and reposition -- he said he always just types some random garbage text first, THEN moves the now much more easily grabbable text box to where he wants it on the page.
Anyway, I felt at least a little vindicated to hear an Apple frontline employee share a couple of the same little annoyances that had been bugging me just a few days earlier!
Cheers,
John Bertram
Toronto

Wish list for audiobooks

I have an iPad 1 & when I find an audiobook in iTunes on my iPad that I may want to buy in the future, I cannot see any way to mark it or save it to a wish list.
Does any one know of such a feature?

I have had the same question. I see you're able to add items to your wish list on your computer by clicking the arrow pull down menu next to the buy button. Then you can view those added items on your wishing on your iPad. But for some reason you can't add items to your wish list from your iPad. It's a strange design flaw to say the least.

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