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display component description #52

Open sjmackenzie opened 10 years ago

sjmackenzie commented 10 years ago

Components support a description, this information should be displayed underneath the links (in the options panel) when a component is selected in editor mode.

dmichiels commented 10 years ago

Perhaps can we display the description when the mouse still over a component? To not put too many thing in the left panel. I'm a little afraid that a long text will take too many place.

sjmackenzie commented 10 years ago

Okay, sounds good!

Also because a graph can get pretty complicated do you think we should only show the edge information when mouse over-ing the edge? So I suspect the edge information adds more noise to the graph. I hope just the names of the components and links are enough information to convey what the program does. Need more info? Mouse over the edge! Need more info about the component mouse over the component!

This can be post masters.

One thing: the Zen circle is beautiful if it's by itself I fear it can get out of control if we have many Zen circles. This isn't a huge problem as we can just change the image used by the component. But I fear the edge information should be subdued.

I'll need to get Manolis' (He's an artist + hacker @ our hackerspace) opinion on aesthetics to find a good solution for this one.

Again post masters.

dmichiels commented 10 years ago

Agree! Mouse over a link show the two port names. mouse over a component show description and all the ports names of the links.