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Tjerk

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Note editor
« on: January 14, 2003, 02:30:57 am »
Hi Geoff,

I frequently use the note editor (I guess we all do) and there are some things that irritate me:
- Ctrl-Del deletes the rest of the line, while I would expect the next word on the right would be deleted;
- Ctrl-Backspace produces a non-printable character, while I would expect the word on the left would be deleted;
- Doubleclicking a word also selects the character next to it (space, dot, etc). For a space this is OK, but not for a dot or any other character.
- Doubleclicking a word also selects characters like '(' in front of a word, don't like this.
- Would like multilevel Undo (already mentioned for every other action in EA).
- Switching "Overwrite / insert" does not work with "INS" key? Also not shown in toggleboxes right bottom (with SCRL and CAP).
- Scrollock is shown right bottom, but does not work in note boxes (I don't care about this, but maybe the SCRL box needs to be removed).

The next one is tricky, but I note it anyway:
-  Add Bold and Italic capabilities (e.g. using Ctrl shortkeys) that are translated to appropriate styles for RTF and HTML. Also show the style in the note boxes. I know that this is already sort of possible by allowing RTF tags in notes, but that makes the model much harder to read using EA.

Other things:
- When a (e.g. class) detail popup editdialog is resized, all dropdown boxes also resize. This is OK for the notes field and maybe for the name of the item, but resizing dropdown boxes becomes a bit messy.

Greetings,
Tjerk

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Re: Note editor
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2003, 07:04:07 am »
I'll add one more thing to the wish list:

The property browser's "Notes" pane shows notes for any selectedobject, but simply goes blank for connectors, even when there are notes for that connector.  It only seems natural that it would also show notes for a selected connector, and it would certainly be more convenien than what we have to do now.

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Re: Note editor
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2003, 01:38:52 pm »
Anudder request:

Currently, notes or addition of plain text are the only ways to annotate a state chart stub.  The UML standard specifies labeling for inbound and outbound stubs (represented by horizontal or vertical "forks").  EA allows annotation to be added, but it doesn't show up in the diagram.  Can this be addressed in a future rev?

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Fred Woolsey
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