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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago

Sometimes the UI drives me nuts!

Just to say as prefix:  am a BIG fan of soapUI. It is extremely powerful, normally easy to use and esp. since I started to discover it wonderful extensibility using groovy I really love it.

 

BUT sometimes the UI really drives me nuts with its awkward hiccups!

 

E.g. I was just sitting there and wanted to add three new custom properties to the list.

For some odd reason soapUI has issues handling the mouse-clicks that are needed to select the fields in those property lists. ||-(

I have to click 30 or more times into the name or value fields until a field finally accepts that click and switches to edit mode, so that I can modify a name or enter/modify a value there. Why is this so? This is so ABSOLUTELY BASIC! Why is this an issue here??? With this behavior a 10 second operation can turn into a minute-long chase!

 

Another one of my "favorites" is, that I click on the [X] to close a sub-window and instead it maximizes! I then have to chase that [X] a second time to REALLY close that window.

 

And these weirdoes exist since at least 3 years (at least as long as I know soapUI).

Folks: could you PLEASE occasionally do a bit of cleanup/fixing on these trivia?

 

Regards and thank-you!

Michael

 

  • AV's avatar
    AV
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    9 years ago

    Thanks your opinion mmoser18! I'll talk to PO and will try to improve that in next release.

    • mmoser18's avatar
      mmoser18
      Frequent Contributor
      9 years ago

      Actually <Blush!><clear-throat> - ahem <more blushing!> - I just found out, WHY I had such trouble getting these properties fields into edit mode:

       

      One has to double-click them! Normally, one has to single-click into a field to set the cursor and be able to start editing.

      So, when I tried a dozen or more times to click this into edit mode at some point I just happened to do a double-click and then I finally was in edit mode!

       

      In other words: the fields actually react reliable, but it was the gesture required that is/was totally counter-intuitive and unexpected - at least for a Windows user!

       

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    Premier2k
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    I've seen the maximising window many times myself, there is away to stop it for a while though. Double click the title bar of the window you are closing and then you can close them without them maximising. It seems to stop it for a while.

     

    Another one for me is when you expand a test suite or test case to check it's contents and then pretty soon after you want collapse the list again and instead it registers it as a double click and opens up the properties in a window for you....arrghhh...