Feature: Object Comment Display

[Corneliu]

the comment field for database objects (tabels, views, procedures, etc) are hardly visible.

I sugest the comment to be displayed when mouse moves over a table, view, etc.

Also in the Object View the comment could be displayed in the second line after object name.

[peterlaursen]

Program version please?!

1)

Are you talking about CREATE/ALTER TABLE GUI?

Can you explain 'hardly visible' ?

2)

Display in Objects tab is like MySQL returns it when queried SHOW CREATE …

If we change that you will not be able to copy/paste and use it!

3)

Tooltip ('hovering') on Objects in Object Brower is a nice idea.

But I am not sure that I think COMMENTS is the most important information for such tooltip.

[DonQuichote]

peterlaursen wrote on Sep 11 2007, 10:34 AM:

Can you explain 'hardly visible' ?

I think it just means that MySQL comments are nowhere to be seen in the interface, except for when you really search for it in the object tab. I use comments on database objects often, and they are meant for colleague programmers and database maintainers (which includes myself after enough time has passed). These comments often hold maintenance hints (“uppercase only”, “Not a timestamp, update by hand”, …). So ideally these comments should reach my colleagues whenever they use the database with a database frontend.

peterlaursen wrote on Sep 11 2007, 10:34 AM:

Tooltip ('hovering') on Objects in Object Brower is a nice idea.

But I am not sure that I think COMMENTS is the most important information for such tooltip.

That is what PhpMyAdmin does, and I really like it. Off course, you don't “hover” for the fun of it, so the presence of a comment would probably have to be visible by an overlay icon or something like that. Alternatively, you could add a comment entry in the treeview, but that would probably take too much lines of space to have a nice overview of the structure. I could not think of anything else I would rather have in the tooltip.

[peterlaursen]

I have allready added your request here:

http://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/issues/det…5&start=100

We will put all efforts into releasing 6.1 now.

Exact priorities for 6.2 and later will be decided only as 6.1 gets close to FINAL release.

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