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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 21, 2007, 09:37:35 pm

Title: IDEA: Feature Note tool-tips
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 21, 2007, 09:37:35 pm

In a related posting [size=13]Notes for attributes[/size] (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1189520050;start=0#0), user Stringer points out there is no easy way of displaying attributes notes on a diagram.

This posting is related.  It seems to me that it would be useful to display the Notes for a UML-Feature via the tool-tip if the feature is selected.  Otherwise, the classifier note is displayed.

I don't know about other users, but the current Tool-tip display is not very useful, most of the space is taken up with the (necessary) identification, leaving not much else for the actual note content.

Can we have bigger tool-tips please?  In fact, it would be great if the tool-tip consisted of at least 2 lines: the first containing the identifier and the second the note content.  My preference would be for a more "rectangular" tool-tip - 1 line of identifier and 3 lines of content.  Best of all, if I continue to hover, the tool-tip could show more and more of the note!

Paolo

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Title: Re: IDEA: Feature Note tool-tips
Post by: thomaskilian on October 23, 2007, 06:18:51 am

Agree. That would be a real improvement :)

Title: Re: IDEA: Feature Note tool-tips
Post by: «Midnight» on October 23, 2007, 07:52:52 am

I think both ideas - ability to display feature notes on a diagram and improved tool tips - are worthy enhancements.

The shape and content limitations of EA tool tips are certainly weak points, particularly when considered in the light of how simple improvements could dramatically improve the user experience.

As to how the tool tips could be improved, that is a different matter altogether. I'm not sure how much control developers have in this area, at least not without rewriting significant code, leaving the application vulnerable to future implementation changes in Windows. MS Office does allow some control over tool tip size and shape, including a means of defining these through the API, so there is hope.

David