Darren's Weekly Nugget 10/02/2006

[TiTou]

Pas si vite !

I claim that one is from me !! see here and here !

At the time I even mentioned that it could have been a Darren's nugget !

[Ben]

Hi TiTou,

I am confused.

It looks like you are talking about entering enum values.

Stephen's nugget talks about text wrapping in a string constant.

Ben

[TiTou]

Wooops... you are absolutely right Ben... I posted this in the wrong thread. Sorry all...

In fact, it was meant to be in that thread.

Sorry again for talking across

Message Edité par TiTou le 10-06-2006 04:11 PM

[tst]

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@Ben wrote:

I went to the VI Checklist to try to find the note that said that if you are entring a lot of comments, that it is recomended that you use a string constant with the scroll bar showing. Well it appears that note has been deleted. So what used to be good is now bad.

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The solution to that should be adding a scrollbar to the comment object. A more generalized solution would probably be getting rid of the comment object and simply using a string constant all the time, but then you would have to change its appearance when you're using a "comment" and you would probably need a property to tell the editor that you can't wire out of that object and at that point it might become too much too handle.

[Ben]

tst wrote "The solution to that should be adding a scrollbar to the comment object."

I agree.

The good news is the code to do this already exists and JUST* needs implemented in the comments.

Ben

* When you code by the hour, "JUST" is a four letter word.

[tst]

BTW, I personally wouldn't think that this (using scrollbars on comments) is necessarily good advice. The point of a comment is to save time or document additional data  - you read the comment instead of reading the code and so you understand more faster. As such, the comment is often "more important" than the code and I would rather make the diagram larger than not see the entire text at once. Of course, that's a matter of personal taste and might change depending on the nature of the comment or the code.