Re: add attributes?

[Carl Karsten <carl personnelware com>]

Michael Ross wrote:
> Steffen,
>
> I have thought of the grouping, but if you want to toggle notes/descriptions
> on and off that requires layering.  You can't group things on different
> layers...can you?
>
> My solution is to keep notes that are not for public consumption on a layer
> separate from the diagram entities.  I do have to remember to delete the
> notes when I delete the entity as Carl mentioned, and they don't move around
> the diagram, if I move the entity.
>
> For my purposes notations on a drawn entity or group has taken the form of
> purchasing notes on electrical components.  Or design explanations.  In a
> functional block diagram the notes give me a deeper level of detail that is
> turned on occasionally.  I suppose I would really like to make "visibility
> toggle-able notes" as an attribute of a group more often than of a singular
> entity or shape.  Perhaps that would even be easier to implement...Add the
> notation attribute to the group, not the shape.  Then if you need to
> annotate a shape you group it first.  This would not require any retro
> tweaking of shapes.
>
> I second Carl, I would like an attribute for notes.  Notes that can be moved
> around the entity and be toggled visibly on/off.  This would be very handy.
> But yes, there are workarounds.  I would make the addition myself if I knew
> how.

As long as we are getting into enhancements:
I would like if the new option was to add custom attributes, which means we 
users could then add description, order, count, weight, whatever. (add as many 
as we feel like.)   Being able to turn on/off visibility on each one sounds nice 
too.  But I would be perfectly happy if they didn't show up on the diagram, so 
visible can come later.

Carl K