I was thinking about providing a "multi-select" properties view, that
would bulk apply settings for anything you change ...
On Apr 27, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> While a default value is useful, the ability to have a "one-click"
> option to toggle all current values is generally more useful. A few
> of the things that this allows the user to do is to fix
> existing-but-undesired settings, make a project's settings consistent,
> and change a project from one type of locking to another. Just add
> an "Update" button after the default value to push the default value
> to every entity attribute.
>
> Cayenne supports this for schema, superclass, package, and
> optimistic locking.
>
> On 4/27/07, Mike Schrag <mschra..dimension.com> wrote:
>> > as an aside, and the reason why this bug report was lodged, was
>> > especially because I found that the more entities I added to the
>> > model the slower Entity Modeler was, with all the notifications and
>> > whatever it was doing in the background (I suppose verifying the
>> > model with every action). Thus, little things like this became
>> > increasingly irritating as it was just another thing that slowed
>> > the process down for modelling the entities.
>> This is a bigger bug report to me than the locking issue (though I
>> can just make a preference pane with a default value).
>>
>> > e.g., Clicking on the "Add new attribute" button five times in a
>> > row would take longer than 5 seconds to populate. Beach-ball city
>> > after a while... and clicking each of the attributes locking to
>> > untick the ones I wanted unticked, took too long also. Too much
>> > mouse clicking.
>> I've never gotten a beach ball in EM.
>>
>> What kind of machine are you on? How big of a model and model group
>> are we talking: model count, entities in the active model,
>> attributes in the entity?
>>
>> ms
>>
>>
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