On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 14:01 -0400, Michael Ross wrote: > In the development environment of LabVIEW, we place functional icons > - subroutines. They are connected by wires of data. The whole > business is self documenting, if you use it with that intent. When > you bring your cursor above an icon a couple things can happen, tip > strips can arise with whatever text in it you like. Also there is > Context - Help that displays notes in a window, if it is activated > (there are other functions as well and the Context Help can contain > links to more in depth Help). The Icons also have a label and a > caption which are toggled visible by either manual or programmatic > means.
So you're describing two kinds of documentation here: User-input "tip strips" that appears like tooltips for widgets and which gives hints on the role of an object instance in the particular diagram, and programmed-in "context help" shown in a separate window that gives hints on how to use an object. Is that correct? I can see the use of both, but neither is something I'm seeing as likely to happen in this release. The "tip strip" should probably not be added until we have the properties better structured, so as to not increase the size of the properties dialogs even more. The fancy version of course would allow editing the tip strip in place:) -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
