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sirjuddington
Feature Request: Display comments on map objects in the editor.
SLADE Version: 3.1.8 Operating System: Linux Issue Details: I often find myself wishing I could make a note inside the map about what I plan to do later--I try to "block out" my layout before doing detail work, and in the process I end up with a lot of BIGBRIK2 shapes that have little to no resemblance to what I actually wanted to do. This would be an excellent time to have a "map comment" button.
This would take one of two forms, one of which is probably way easier to implement than the other:
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Adding text into the map itself. Being able to write text onto the map, which displays on the map while editing, but does not appear in the map itself, would be a life-saver. However, where would one store these comments? Presumably there's no place in the UDMF standard for comments placed directly onto the map, because it's not already in there.
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Displaying any text in the "comment" field on Things, Sectors, Lines, etc. This information could be displayed in-map--i.e., in the middle of sectors, or along lines, or next to things--or it could be displayed in the info panel along the bottom of the map editor when hovering over the object in question. Placing a "comment" would then be as easy as selecting a given sector, or placing a mapspot, and editing the "comment" field.
This feature would allow me to annotate my map as I make it--which means I'd be able to do every step of the map-making process, from initial sketch to final result, without ever leaving SLADE. I wouldn't even have to do a back-of-the-napkin sketch of my map to work out the details.
This is pretty much what I was doing in the planning mode branch, except for the ability to show comments attached to existing map objects. The main thing left to do there is saving the data, since as you said it can't directly be written to the map (it technically can in UDMF, but I don't trust other editors (or even SLADE) to keep unknown UDMF info :P). As such it'd probably have to be written to another entry somewhere in the archive.
I'm also reminded of DoomEd's feature to store tag names in TAGDESC/PLATFORM lumps. Something like this would be handy.
Has anyone gotten a chance to work on this? I know planning-mode is blocked on figuring out how to save the data, but UDMF already has a "comment" field on things/sectors/lines, so that could work for a for-now solution while planning-mode is being worked on.