Edit Comment Dialog

When you have completed your changes, click on OK. The dialog will close and the comment's appearance will change to reflect the changes you have made.

To update the comment, but keep the dialog open, click the Apply button. The comment's appearance will change to reflect the changes you have made, but the dialog will remain open.

To abandon your changes, click on Cancel. Any changes you have made (or any changes you have made since clicking on the Apply button) will be discarded.

In order to make any changes you have made to the comments in a data file permanent, the TRX file must be saved. Temprecord will prompt you if you try to close the data file or exit the program without saving the file first.

There are some things we need to be aware of when adding comments to the graph. In general terms, we can think of a comment being positioned at a particular date and time, and at a particular temperature on the graph. This behaviour can be modified somewhat by the checkboxes to the left of the date-time and value fields however.

This field specifies the date and time where the comment (or more precisely, the left hand edge of the comment) will be positioned on the graph. The position of the comment on the graph and how it behaves when the graph is scrolled is determined by the checkbox immediately to the left of the date and time.

If this checkbox is checked, the comment will always appear on the graph at the date and time specified. If you scroll the graph horizontally, the comment scrolls as well. If the date and time associated with the comment is off the screen, so will the comment be. If the date and time of the comment is not visible on the displayed area of the graph, Temprecord displays an indicator at the nearest (left or right) edge of the graph in place of the comment. If you want to reposition the graph so that a comment is at the centre of the graph, right-click the comment, or the indicator that shows the comment is off screen, and select Find Comment from the pop-up menu.

If this checkbox is not checked, the comment will always appear on the graph at the same physical X (pixel) position, e.g. in at the left-hand edge. If you scroll the graph horizontally, the comment stays where it is and the graph scrolls under it. If the data window is sized so that the X and Y position of the comment is no longer on screen, Temprecord positions the comment against the nearest (left or right) edge.

This field specifies the “value” at which the comment will be positioned at on the graph.

If the checkbox is checked, the comment will always appear on the graph at the position corresponding to the temperature or humidity value specified. If this field has 25.5°C for example, the comment will show with the top edge of the comment at exactly 25.5°C. If you scroll the graph vertically, the comment scrolls as well. If the “value” of the comment is not on the displayed area of the graph, Temprecord displays an indicator at the nearest (top or bottom) edge of the graph in place of the comment.

If the checkbox is not checked, the comment will always appear on the graph at the same height i.e. physical Y (pixel) position. If you scroll the graph vertically, the comment stays where it is and the graph scrolls under it. If the data window is sized so that the comment is no longer on screen, temprecord positions the comment against the nearest (top or bottom) edge.

If you want to reposition the graph so that a comment is at the centre of the graph, right-click the comment, or the indicator that shows the comment is off screen, and select Find Comment from the pop-up menu. If you want to see the text for a comment that is off-screen, move the mouse cursor over the indicator and the comment details will be shown as a hint (this needs to be enabled - see Options/Graph/Hinting).

If both the date and value checkboxes are checked, the comment will be positioned at the same position on the graph relative to the displayed temperature points. If you want to annotate an event associated with a temperature sample for example, drag the comment to be beside the sample (zooming in will enable you to position it more accurately), and make sure both checkboxes are checked. Check the Locked checkbox to give you protection against accidentally bumping the comment as well if you wish.

If neither the date nor value checkboxes are checked, the comment will always be positioned at the same position on the graph window, regardless of the zoom factors and scroll positions. If you want to add annotation that is not associated with any particular time or temperature sample (a graph title for example) drag the comment to the desired position in the graph window and make sure both checkboxes are unchecked.

Specify the name of the person authoring or editing the comment. On new comments this defaults to the logged-in Windows user name.

Specify the "title" of the comment. This is the text that will display on screen.

The text area below the comment is the body of the comment. You can enter any amount of text here.

If this checkbox is checked the comment cannot be moved from it's on-screen position. The comment can still be edited.

If you hover the mouse above a comment the details of the comment will display as a hint.