Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on September 27, 2006, 07:04:34 pm
Title: Other Notes improvements...
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on September 27, 2006, 07:04:34 pm
Under the Element menu (both Main and Context) can we have an Add - Feature Linked Note item? That would place the note similar to the Add - Note item and then immediately open the linked note dialog?
Also, Notes don't seem to respond to the resize function [Alt+Z] - they need to.
If you Attach a Note or Constraint to a connector, the note link is not selectable (and therefor NOT movable nor pinable) - the element one is... This needs to be fixed.
Lastly, can some thought be given to optionally displaying any notes on a connector to the connector (similar to the Notes compartment I've asked for elsewhere).
At a minimum, we need to be able to display the Notes of a connector as a Feature Linked Note (on the connector)
Voting starts Now... Paolo
[Edit: Add the ability to add the Diagram Note (NOT the Property Note) directly from the menu]
Title: Re: Other Notes improvements...
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 02, 2006, 07:16:44 pm
Another suggestion (which I think I've added a elsewhere...
If a Note is a linked note (and therefore not modifiable), then please render the text in the Note window [Ctrl+Shift+1] as disabled so it is clear that you can't change it...
Even better, put some indication as to which element this note is linked to (and how).
Paolo
Title: Re: Other Notes improvements...
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 02, 2006, 07:32:43 pm
This one is pretty important...
In fact, I think it's a bug not a suggestion...
The Note window [Ctrl+Shift+1] does not render correctly.
Even though Unicode support should (now) be ubiquitous throughout EA, the Note window does not render Unicode correctly - it seems stuck in the US ASCII past.
The correct characters are entered via the window (for example a large bullet: ●) and are stored in the repository, and rendered correctly one a linked Note in the diagram - but NOT in the Notes window where they appear as half-blocks: ▌.
This needs to be fixed ASAP...
Paolo
Title: Re: Other Notes improvements...
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 02, 2006, 09:22:16 pm
Note names should be available on the Notes Dialog. The default should be: Note (as at present).
Paolo
Title: Re: Other Notes improvements...
Post by: Jan ´Bary´ Glas on October 02, 2006, 11:14:51 pm
Yes the default should always be UML syntax. A Comment is an Element not a NamedElement. It may be a part of an Element, it may annotate a set of Elements. It's only attribute is body: String.
Title: Re: Other Notes improvements...
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 03, 2006, 12:02:53 am
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Yes the default should always be UML syntax. A Comment is an Element not a NamedElement. It may be a part of an Element, it may annotate a set of Elements. It's only attribute is body: String.
Bary,
I'm talking here about the EA Note Element (which is EA's mechanism for instantiating UML Comments).
As far as UML is concerned, the Name Note (as at present) is incorrect - so I'm just saying if you're going to break the rules, then do it in a useful way. ;)
Whether the name is rendered onto the diagram is another matter. But I've found that occasionally giving notes a name is useful as they summarise the semantic content of the note.
And (thinking out loud) if you could give them a name, you could reduce the size of the note (in an outlining sense) and have a little
/[-] outliner control to show or not show the detail.