Releases:GanttProject 2.1 M1
From GanttHive
We encourage everybody to download and play with this build, paying special attention to the features listed below. Please note that they are not yet completed, there are tons of bugs, etc. We expect to hear your general impressions rather than detailed bug reports. Just to understand if we are moving in the right direction
It is a development snapshot. DO NOT USE it for you real projects.
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System requirements
Any modern computer running Windows, Linux or MacOSX with Java 5.0 (aka Java 1.5) installed. It is expected that "java" executable is accessible from your command line (which is known as "Terminal" on MacOSX, "Command Line" on Windows and "xterm" on most Linux systems). Type "java -version" to ensure that your Java is working fine
New features
Hour level granularity
Use hours in your planning. Zoom in to see hours in the timeline, zoom out to see a bigger picture of project. Use time unit codes in duration field of task properties dialog: "1d5h" means "1 day 5 hours".
Yes, we know about business hours. If you tell that your task starts on Monday morning and is 16 hours long, it will finish on Tuesday. Business hours in this build are strictly fixed but surely they will be configurable in the future.
If your tasks are measured in weeks rather than hours, don't panic, we are not going to bother you with these small time units :) You may configure your project granularity on the fourth page of New Project wizard.
Overview pane
Navigate to any date in your project bounds quickly. Overview pane pops up over Gantt chart and shows a small picture of your project highlighting the currently visible area. Scroll it left and right using arrow keys or just click anywhere in overview pane to jump directly to that date. You can open overview pane clicking a small ads line in the bottom of Gantt chart or just pressing Ctrl and + keys together.
We are eager to listen your feedback. Do you find overview pane more usable than scrollbar? Do you want to use it not only for scrolling but also for zooming? Do you want to see a small preview of Gantt chart there?
Renovated task properties dialog
Enjoy good-looking resizeable task properties dialog with aligned fields and big notes editing pane. Resources and dependencies tabs are just empty stubs in this release.
Please tell us what do you think of this new UI. Do you like task notes pane which is always shown? Do you find an idea of grouping task fields into folding panes promising? Might you wish to close some of there panes or arrange them the way you wish using dragging?
