Mike,
If you're going to do that, I suggest give the user a preference pane
where they can say what userInfo keys to not show. By default, I
would show everything in userInfo. If the user considers your built-
in attributes 'pollution', they could exclude it from the userInfo
view themselves.
Ken
On Jul 19, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> After thinking about this one and Garry's index suggestion, I'm
> thinking I should write things like this into userInfo, but not
> make it visible to the users of the modeler. So when it loads in,
> we would read these things out of userInfo and write them back out
> in userInfo, but remove them from userInfo while you're using
> modeler (basically just using userInfo for persistence). That way
> you can get to these things, but it won't pollute the UI.
>
> I have to do some "real" work today :) So I won't get back to EM
> till tonight, but some of these would be cool to add in for WWDC.
>
> ms
>
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Dov Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> I have been following the discussions on the Cayenne usage within
>> the EOModeler with some interest. We have been using WO since 1997
>> and recently started using Cayenne for some new projects. Cayenne
>> is a nice product and fills some holes left open by EOF (i.e.
>> Support for DB2, db connection pooling, etc). But I really don’t
>> see why there should be any concern what technology is being used
>> to provide a tool to build an EOModel as long as it works within
>> your application.
>>
>> That being said, in addition to adding the ability to generate
>> indexes for the model – it would be VERY helpful to provide an
>> ability to capture column and table level comments/descriptions
>> and a ready way to generate a data dictionary. Maintaining that
>> kind of information inside the model would be perfect instead of
>> having to keep the documentation separate.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dov Rosenberg
>> Inquira Inc
>> 370 Centerpointe Circle, ste 1178
>> Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
>> (407) 339-1177 x 102
>> (407) 339-6704 (fax)
>> drosenber..nquira.com
>> AOL IM: dovrosenberg
>>
>
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