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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Feature Request for GSCHEM
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:03:07 -0700
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On 4/26/20 9:21 AM, Roland Lutz wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, gene glick (geneglick AT optonline DOT net) [via 
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> It would be really useful to have a pop-up info box on a schematic.
>> OpenOffice Calc spreadsheets has this very feature. Hover the mouse
>> over a cell, and up pops an info box.
>
> Do I understand correctly that you want to be able to add notes to a 
> schematic which are not visible in the editor window and in the 
> printout but which can be viewed in some other way?
>
> You can always add a custom invisible attribute to a component (e.g., 
> comment=) and view it in the attribute editor.  Would it solve your 
> problem if the value of this attribute was displayed in a tooltip?
>
Might I suggest this "feature", if added, be able to be turned off in 
"Options" as an option?! I find such popup tips annoying when I don't 
need them, which is most time. They too often pop up over something I 
want to see.

IIRC, cannot attributes (i.e. Comment) be attached to the schematic 
page, rather than a component (symbol)? Yes, I just created a comment 
attribute on a blank page. That may be a way to add notes to a schematic 
and not have them move when a component is moved. The downside to 
comment attribute use is that it only allows one line of text. Multiple 
comments for multiple lines. Wait! I just tried using a newline in a 
comment attribute and it did create text on a new line! I thought this 
was verboten! Using 1.10.0 (g1919a45), When did this change? Or was it 
always this way for the comment attribute? Does having multiple comment 
attribute lines cause other suite tools to complain?

HTH.
Girvin