The Description column should be visible by default in OMEdit

[Francesco Casella]

When you run a simulation in OMEdit, the way the variable browser window is shown on my PC running Windows 10 on a 1366x768 pixel screen is such that the Description column is not visible. What I noticed consistently with all my students using OMEdit is that they were not aware at all of the fact that a textual description of the variables is actually available (provided of course that the variables are properly commented in the source code).

It is true that a scroll bar is present at the bottom of the window, but hardly anybody notices it, nor tries to actually use it, if he/she is not aware of the fact there there is more interesting stuff to see which lies out of the current view port.

I would suggest to change the default setup of the Plotting view so that the "Description" column head shows up. Then, if one is interested, he/she can further change the setup to actually read those comments.

[Adeel Asghar]

Unfortunately this is not possible. I mean there are ugly hacks to achieve this but I strongly recommend against them. We have to set a large minimum width for Variables Browser to accomodate all the fields inside it, this is bad for the rest of the GUI elements.

OMEdit remembers the sizes of the widgets so one idea is to expand the Variables Browser enough so that Description field is visible.

[Francesco Casella]

Replying to adeas31:

Unfortunately this is not possible. I mean there are ugly hacks to achieve this but I strongly recommend against them. We have to set a large minimum width for Variables Browser to accomodate all the fields inside it, this is bad for the rest of the GUI elements.

I'm also against ugly hacks.

OMEdit remembers the sizes of the widgets so one idea is to expand the Variables Browser enough so that Description field is visible.

Yes, please change the default size of this widget so that the heading of that column is visible.

In fact, this was my idea, maybe I did not explain it too clearly.

[Adeel Asghar]

Replying to casella:

Replying to adeas31:

Unfortunately this is not possible. I mean there are ugly hacks to achieve this but I strongly recommend against them. We have to set a large minimum width for Variables Browser to accomodate all the fields inside it, this is bad for the rest of the GUI elements.

I'm also against ugly hacks.

OMEdit remembers the sizes of the widgets so one idea is to expand the Variables Browser enough so that Description field is visible.

Yes, please change the default size of this widget so that the heading of that column is visible.

The only way to show the heading is to set a large enough minimum width for the widget. Which means you can't shrink the Variables Browser to smaller size.

In fact, this was my idea, maybe I did not explain it too clearly.

[Francesco Casella]

Replying to adeas31:

The only way to show the heading is to set a large enough minimum width for the widget. Which means you can't shrink the Variables Browser to smaller size.

Too bad. Never mind that.