Create a Component Glossary, similar to the XML Browser

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Create a Component Glossary, similar to the XML Browser #29

Open chrisdembia opened 8 years ago

chrisdembia commented 8 years ago

It'd be nice to have a window similar to the XML browser that lists all the properties, inputs, outputs, and connectors of each registered component.

aymanhab commented 8 years ago

Absolutely @chrisdembia and these could also be combined in a class tree view like. For that to be useful though we need to define component "Categories" of meaningful classes in the class hierarchy so that Actuator_ and mixins that make no sense to end users can be filtered out.

chrisdembia commented 8 years ago

Good point.

aymanhab commented 8 years ago

In fact I think the "Category" idea can be generalized so that each class would have a static set of "tags" which are attribute value-pairs/dictionary that would contain:

Category (Force, Actuator, Sensor, Frame, ....) for fltering
Version since x to find additions since previous release
Authors (now a static on an island with custom code all over)
Publications (same)
Keywords etc. (for search purposes)

chrisdembia commented 8 years ago

+1 I like this.

chrisdembia commented 7 years ago

@aymanhab just brought this up in the dev meeting today.