Re: Adding comments to an object

[Ken Springer <snowshed1 q com>]

On 4/21/14 9:52 AM, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 21.04.2014 17:28, Dumitru Ursu wrote:
> > On 04/21/2014 06:16 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> > > I'm creating an organizational chart structure of information.  If I
> > > choose to, I want to be able to click on an object, in this case a
> > > rectangle, and have another box, or window, open somewhere that gives me
> > > additional information about the data in the rectangle. The information
> > > the box/window will be the same type of information you would get from a
> > > footnote, endnote, or bibliography.  It will simply tell me where I got
> > > the information from.
> So you could use the "UML - Class" object in Dia as your box with just a
> simple string (the class name). Switch off "Attributes visible" and
> "Operations visible", to get rid of the two additional areas.

And this is all more than I understand.   LOL

> Your extra window for more information would be just the properties dialog
> having a lot of fields you could now fill with additional, invisible
> information. You can keep it open while navigating your diagram, but
> updating to the selection requires a double click.

Are you saying each rectangular object would have it's own properties 
box?  If so, it might work.  A problem I'm anticipating is one object 
might need 50 characters of text, yet another may need 250 characters of 
text.

> > [...]
> > Dia is definitely not what you are looking for.
> That's a matter of opinion ...
>
>         Hans
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