New UI? Tweet

[Jan21201]

I bought in 2016? a octane license with the archicad plugin. i really liked it and now i bought this winter the perpetual license. i was excited to see the new stuff since the archicad plugin UI allways felt klunky and gave me a way worse experience then octane standalone.
i was a little bit dissapointed to see that in this 8 years not much has improved. i would understand this better if on the archicad side the API would be the same and a piece of ****. but the archicad c++ api improved a lot in this time. and they even built in CEFSharp, which allows developer do build UIs on a html/css/js basis. so i kinda don't understand wy the ui still is so bad...

i understand that when a plugin doesent get to much downloads that its not usefull to pour development time in it. but the archicad plugin was for me a selling point to the perpetual license.
i hope this comes not to much over as harsh critique...

[face_off]

Thanks for the feedback. In this case I don't think the effort required to re-write is supported by the number of users of the plugin. I am also unsure how a HTML/CSS/JS would improve the UI other that just cosmetically.

Paul

[Jan21201]

one could say it has so few users beacause of the bad user experience. wy bother with the plugin when the standalone is way more easy to use?

Waht i want to say with the HTML/CSS/JS UI that it could be more close to the standalone UI, since the DG::XXX Class would never allow that. That would't be mere "cosmetics" but a better user experience.

i mean it is kinda grotesque, the plugin is able to create proxies waht is very cool and is a reason alone to use the archicad plugin over the standalone. but then on the other hand does the plugin not even bother to get the images from the surface attributes...