I guess the term "comment" is too narrow and misleading here. I was
thinking more of a CAY-400 approach:
https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-400
I.e. a list of key/value pairs rather than a single comment.
Andrus
On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
>> I can better comment on specifics if we decide on a visual
>> solution first. Since comments can be added to almost any mapping
>> element -[Obj|Db] [Entity|Attribute|Relationship] Query (?), my
>> first thought is to add an info button (same as the one used on
>> relationships panels) to the rest of the mapping elements. This
>> button would pop a dialog showing comments editor.
> If comments are hidden behind a button, than the button should have
> at least
> 2 different visual states, to know from the first sight if there's
> a comment
> there or not (without the necessity to press the button, open a
> window and than find out
> that there's no comment there).
>
> IMHO much better approach would be to have a "comment" field with
> an [..] button like one
> is used in all GUI designers. Clicking the [..] button opens the
> popup to edit.
> In the same time one can see if there's something in that textfield
> or not.
>
> Ahmed.
>
>
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