Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#2906 closed enhancement
Enumeration parameter input by drop-down menu — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Francesco Casella | Owned by: | Adeel Asghar |
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Priority: | critical | Milestone: | 1.9.2 |
Component: | OMEdit | Version: | trunk |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The values of enumeration-type parameters have to be typed in manually, but unfortunately there is no indication of what are the legal values that can be used. Either one knows them by heart, or one needs to switch to the textual view, find out the type name, then look for its definition (hardly an easy task, in particular for beginners).
Enumeration types are used ubiquitously in the MSL, so we need to support this unless people are always happy with the defaults.
Suggestion 1: use a drop-down menu
Suggestion 2: make sure there is a way to remove any value and get back to the default (i.e., no modifier in the source code)
Suggestion 3: leave an option to input the value manually (e.g. as a complex expression)