Hints over properties

Currently mousing over a property just shows it’s name again. It’d be great if it looked instead like this:

" BrickColor the color of the object "

It seems pretty obvious for most properties but for some of them (especially the new constraints!) I’d be nice to know what ‘LimitsEnabled’ and 'Restituion" meant so players could use them properly.

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Mousing over a property actually can show a description – it’s just that some of them are missing descriptions. I believe the issue is missing descriptions in ReflectionMetadata.

Yeah, like Echo said, some of them do have descriptions, like Archivable. Might take a workload off of them if they let us fill in some of those for them, but that could potentially be a bad thing due to lack of consistency.

The easiest would probably be to populate ReflectionMetadata fields with info from the Wiki when updating Studio. In addition to completely automating and removing the need for manually maintaining a variety of fields in ReflectionMetadata, these fields are always correct. No more out-of-date Object Browser or hover descriptions.

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That’s a good idea, and it would eliminate things like DataModel::Get showing up despite not being in the API Dump and overall removed.

Also the name of the value type is accepts.

Me and @Seranok were trying to actually do this a couple of months ago. We could try again at some point, but right now the wiki team is focusing on something top secret :wink:

The closest thing you’re going to get for now @ScriptOn, is the Context Help menu.

I admit, I haven’t added useful descriptions to the new Constraints… I will log this for a future task. Thanks

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