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JanDoggen2's avatar
JanDoggen2
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Please gives us back decent borders

I let SOAPUI upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 to be greeted by the new ugly flat interface: Tastes differ, OK, but you threw away functionality (only because you wanted to conform to what 'everybody' else is...
jamescollett's avatar
jamescollett
Contributor
8 years ago

May I add my voice to this request also? I find SoapUI such a useful test tool, but I now tense up when I have to re-size a request panel; it is so difficult to grab an edge or a corner. I wonder, how can the developers of the product bear to use it like this?

 

I am using version 5.2.1. As I write, the current downloadable is at version 5.3.0. Has this UX problem has been addressed in the latest version? If so, then I shall say thank you, download it and shut up.

 

  • donnydepp's avatar
    donnydepp
    Occasional Contributor
    8 years ago

    The thing is... the SoapUI Developer do not work with the Open Source Edition.

     

    You know SoapUI Pro? This is where they get their salary from.

    I trial tested SoapUI Pro and as i excpected... there are no 1 pixel borders... because there are no borders at all.

    You can not open multiple Windows in SoapUI Pro as far as my Communication with the Sales Support was.

     

    • donnydepp's avatar
      donnydepp
      Occasional Contributor
      8 years ago

      I just fixed that in the next branch and in release 5.3 branch.

       

      https://github.com/SmartBear/soapui/pull/272

      https://github.com/SmartBear/soapui/pull/273

       

      There were 2 pixel borders which were overwritten by another 1 pixel borderdefinition.

      So i put there an else-if and expanded the border from 2 to 4 pixels.

      Now there are 3 pixels to grab the border. :D

      No more pain.

       

      I pushed a Release 5.3.0 binary into my release-branch for testing purposes.

      https://github.com/DonnyDepp/soapui/raw/release-5.3.0/soapui/soapui-5.3.0.jar

       

    • jamescollett's avatar
      jamescollett
      Contributor
      7 years ago

      I appreciate that the developers get their salary from the sales of the paid-for product, but given that new releases of the free edition do come out every so often, there must be some development stream going into it.

       

      And for the free edition to be a representative product to encourage users to buy the real thing, it has to resemble it reasonably well, doesn't it?

       

      The One-Pixel Grab is not a dance I enjoy. It's an aspect of the product that causes me anxiety every time I use the product.

    • jamescollett's avatar
      jamescollett
      Contributor
      7 years ago

      DonnyDepp wrote:-

       

      >You can not open multiple Windows in SoapUI Pro 

       

      Is this for real? Only one request/response panel at a time? That is a bit sh1t.