new widget(description widget) suggestion

I think it would be very useful if there is a description widget(it shows like the profiler widget)

Let every component have an description property, and if we turn the description widget on,

there will be displayed the desciption like the profiler widget does...

It's like a small tool tip having user-specified description about the component.

How does it sound?

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Permalink Reply by Garcia del Castillo on May 24, 2010 at 8:19am

That would be a really nice widget to have, and probably not that hard to program, right?

Maybe on top of the component, to avoid interference with the profiler?

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Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on May 24, 2010 at 9:20am

Yeah, it could be nice.

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 24, 2010 at 9:50am

When would you use this widget, viewing of someone else's definition or all the time? Do you use txt or icon views for your components?

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Permalink Reply by Sangsu Lee on May 24, 2010 at 9:03pm

It will be useful for both cases. It can add small explanation about the function or purpose of each component. Even though I made the whole model myself, if it is huge, it is not so easy somewhat later to understand the model in detail. It will remind me why I used those component in those places and for what purpose. I agree when I use txt view I can assign a proper name to components, but it is too simple.

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 25, 2010 at 2:23am

I see now, its not a generic description for a component that you want to say what it does but a user defined description that resembles comments in programming. You could use the scribble feature or an unconnected panel to keep notes alongside components or even the title bar of a group would resemble the profiler widget.

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Permalink Reply by Garcia del Castillo on May 25, 2010 at 2:54am

We have all used floating text panels, and you are right about the title bar of a group, it's quite useful.

But an on/off 'post-it' add-on to the components, just as you turn profiler widget on and off would be really useful, as it is a clear solution rather than the panels.