IN/OUTCOMMENT feature request

wwwdrich · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: IN/OUTCOMMENT feature request

I love the new feature of interface comments in 0.9, however I have a slight problem with it. I really need more control over where the comments are placed. As you can see in the attached images, the logic for where to put them makes them a little unreadable for devices with a lot of connections.

Even some of my less-complicated devices are having issues with the comments slipping under the icons. This problem isn't the same for all devices either, as you can see from the 2nd attachment. I'm assuming it is because the links have different lengths, and the comments are being placed at a specific percentage of the link length?

I would really like to be able to do two things that I think would address my issues:
[list=]Specify the minimum offset from the end of the link -- ex. INCOMMENTMINOFFSET 25 would place the comment a minimum of 25 pixels from the start of the link, thereby preventing them from disappearing under the icons.
[list=]Allow an option for comments to sit on the link instead of next to it. I always try and make sure my links don't overlap too much to make for easier reading, if the comment was on the link it would always be visible.
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Thoughts?

Howie · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

Since 0.92 you can adjust the position along the link with COMMENTPOS.

There's isn't a proper command for positioning distance perpendicular to the link, but I just noticed there *are* a couple of 'secret' SET commands, one of which is comment_nudgeout, which looks to be an offset in pixels, per-link. So something like:

wwwdrich · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

I find that white text is visible on most of the link colors -- at least with our current network that has way too much capacity at the moment so I rarely see links that aren't black or blue (using the gradient rainbow scale from one of the examples on our site).

One thing I did notice, the angle calculations for the comments don't always quite match the angle of the link. They are close, but sometimes slightly off. I'm working from home today, but I'll add a comment with some example images tomorrow. It's really noticible on links using VIA. And I'm sure I am going to be making lots of use of COMMENTPOS once .96 comes out.

Howie · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

wwwdrich · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

Ah, I misread your 0.92 up above as 0.96 -- it's been one of those days. I thought it wasn't there because I tried to use COMMENTOFFSET instead of COMMENTPOS and got an error.