OMEdit: Hiding annotations in text view

[Christian Schubert]

Is it possible to hide (or collapse as in Dymola) the annotations in text view (by default).

It would be helpful for teaching as to not to overburden students with too much source code.

(An "empty" has the following text representation which is hard to understand for a beginner:

model EmptyModel
  annotation(Icon(coordinateSystem(extent = {{-100,-100},{100,100}}, preserveAspectRatio = true, initialScale = 0.1, grid = {2,2})), Diagram(coordinateSystem(extent = {{-100,-100},{100,100}}, preserveAspectRatio = true, initialScale = 0.1, grid = {2,2})));
end EmptyModel;

[Lennart Ochel]

I already wanted to open the same ticket. This feature would also for me very useful.

[Martin Sjölund]

Postponed until 1.9.1

[anonymous]

how do you do this?

[Martin Sjölund]

This ticket was not closed for 1.9.1, which has now been released. It was batch modified for milestone 1.9.2 (but maybe an empty milestone was more appropriate; feel free to change it).

[Martin Sjölund]

Milestone changed to 1.9.3 since 1.9.2 was released.

[anonymous]

Dear developers,

I think that postponing again and again the implementation of this essential feature of OMEdit is a big mistake. I am pretty sure that many people willing to use the software give up pretty soon, tired to filter out useless information when reading non-toy models.

Sincerely

[Martin Sjölund]

Moved to new milestone 1.9.4

[anonymous]

Dear developers,

As pointed out before, the code is very hard to read with all the annotation in it.
This information has no use to the modeller. It is generated by graphic editor and only used by that editor.

Surely, It can't be too hard to show the user a filtered version of the code, and keep the full model in the background.
I'm seriously considering just modelling without the graphical editor, to make it readable.

Please could you make this a priority.

[Martin Sjölund]

Milestone pushed to 1.9.5

[Martin Sjölund]

Milestone renamed

[Adeel Asghar]

736e098/OMEdit have support for annotation folding.

[Lennart Ochel]

Replying to adeas31:

736e098/OMEdit have support for annotation folding.

Thanks, I've tested it and it works well. However, can you extend that feature to also fold single line annotations?

[Christoph <buchner@…>]

Would it also be possible to fold annotations at the end of a line? That's actually where I typically find the vast majority of annotations, and they sometimes blow up the length of a line by a factor of 3 or so.

The ellipsis highlight could replace the arguments of the annotation, and (ideally) clicking on the ellipsis would expnd/collapse the annotation.

For example, the single line

inner Modelica.Fluid.System system annotation(Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {62, -56}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));

could become

inner Modelica.Fluid.System system annotation(...);

which imho very much improves readability, especially when encountering multiple annotated statements.

[Martin Sjölund]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[Adeel Asghar]

OMEdit can now fold/unfold multi line annotations also OMC is by default producing multi line annotations so the code is very much readable.