Other Notes improvements...

[Paolo F Cantoni]

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)

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Paolo

[Edit: Add the ability to add the Diagram Note (NOT the Property Note) directly from the menu]

[Paolo F Cantoni]

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

[Paolo F Cantoni]

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

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Note names should be available on the Notes Dialog.  The default should be: Note (as at present).

Paolo

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

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.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

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

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