Re: DbEntity Comments

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 08:21:39 EST

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    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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