thoughts on modeler improvements + *Map classes

From: Robert Zeigler (robert.zeigle..mail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2008 - 17:13:45 EST

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    Hi all,

    I've been playing with the improved modeler today while working on a
    cayenne project that I just upgraded from cayenne 2 to 3.0M5.
    Overall, very nice! I like the syntax highlighting, the new options,
    the ability to copy/paste tables, queries, entities, etc. I noticed
    two things that feel like regressions to me, though.

    1) When editing sql scripts, it used to be that if you highlighted a
    section of text and did command-c (on a mac; presumably ctrl-c on
    windows), that section of text would be copied. I assume this was due
    to os-x/java's default handling of copy/paste actions. Now, it
    replaces the text with c.

    2) The old text-editor used the system-default key bindings for
    navigation (eg: alt/option left to move the cursor one word left );
    the new editor uses windows' key bindings (eg: ctrl-left arrow to move
    the cursor one word left), even on a mac.

    A new feature that would also be nice is an "undo" option, at least
    for editing scripts. :)

    I love the new "Map" classes that provide super-easy access to your
    data map and associated queries. I think a nice extension to these
    would be to have teh super-class map list, as static finals, the names
    of all of the queries (even the sql-script queries), the way we do
    with object entities and property names.

    Thoughts?

    Unless I hear otherwise, I'll plan on opening up issues for these items.

    Robert



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