Re: Graph Display

Hi
Ok, ok, you sound like some of my colleagues :-)
what else do you want ? :-)
:-) No to be serious :
What I am thinking off,
is just the revision and the author
the revision date and the beginning of the
comment ... would look like

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| 1.4 - cilginnis           |
| 2004/07/26 Mon 16:05      |
| Finished design wi...     |
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the comment would be reduced to about 20 characters,
eventually followed by an ellipsis.
The whole feature perhaps as a display option ...

What are you talking about copying to the clipboard ?
I think I got a really old version here ;-)
When there's enough enthusiasm left I can look for it :-)

I think tooltips don't make sense because all you see is
there . and in my opinion the full comment should
not be displayed in a tooltip, don't you think ?

What I find more interesting and to achieve with
a little effort is the collapse thing ...
( When there's enough enthusiasm left I can look for it :-) )

But first of all - I want the author - comment and date :-)
Nothing more - nothing less ...
And I see your interested in ... ok ... so let's get detailed ...
do you want a checkbox in the options dialog for that feature?
The changes I want to made are only specific to
windows ... but I think/hope this isn't quite a problem ?

Ok, think that's enough for today  ... :-)

Best regards
Claus

PS ... but a little idea
came up to me while writing this mail ... what about
the following ... (just a mind game and I mean really just a mind game).
Combining the collapsability with the comment display ...
would look like this :

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| 1.4 - cilginnis           |_+_|     <--- click this plus to display
| 2004/07/26 Mon 16:05      | + |     <--- the branches and this for the
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Jens Miltner wrote:

>Am 26.07.2004 um 10:59 schrieb Oliver Giesen:
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>>>I am going to slightly rewrite
>>>the graph option ...
>>>so that the author and the
>>>revision date and the
>>>comment are displayed in the
>>>graph.
>>>So now I can do this only for me
>>>hardcoded quick-and-dirty style
>>>or the proper way for all ...
>>>(I think the graph-options-Dialog can hold
>>>some checkboxes more)
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>>>So the question is:
>>>1.) Are you interested in this feature ?
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>>Personally I would be. That said, here's my feature request in case you
>>are really going to implement that... ;) :
>>Make the individual revisions' detail data collapsible, so that I could
>>expand only those nodes that interest me while still keeping the 
>>general
>>"timeline" visible. Always displaying all revision comments inside the
>>Graph could otherwise result in a rather crowded view. Some of our
>>revision comments often exceed 20 lines of text and more.
>>Oh, and make sure the texts could still be selected and copied to the
>>clipboard... ;)
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>>Thinking about it... maybe a simple tooltip window showing the revision
>>details in addition to the existing click-behaviour (for the 
>>select/copy
>>tasks) would already be sufficient?
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>A tooltip is what I'd suggest - it's much easier to implement (the 
>graph is not really suitable for resizing one of the boxes as all 
>others would have to shift to make space, etc.) and it will give you 
>the information if you're interested.
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>I still think, adding the name and date to the revision box may be a 
>good option, since these are details that are of known size (i.e. small 
>enough to keep the general tree structure visible) yet they might be 
>helpful when quickly browsing through the tree. Also, I'd at least 
>display them conditionally based on the setting of a persistent bool 
>value, even if that option is not [yet] exposed in the UI...
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>>>2.) Is something else planned ?
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>>Nothing that I know about. Kalle? Jerzy? Jens?
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>Nothing planned from my end at the moment...
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