There are times when I'm looking at a collapsed node and I don't recall how many nodes lie under it - as children, grandchildren, etc.
I would find it useful to have, perhaps in the status bar, an indication of the total number of descendents, the number of children, and perhaps, though less importantly, the number of grandchildren. I can't think of a time when I would find great-grandchildren or beyond a useful bit of data, as it could be coarsely understood by subtracting the number of children and grandchildren from the total number of descendents.
I'm thinking something like this in the status bar as I mouse over or click a node.
D = descendents
C = children
G = grandchildren
The total number of greats and beyond = 115 - 33 = 82
Not super-important, but I would find it useful.
.. Bal
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Thanks for clarifying it. Yes - I was aware of the Map Statistics on the File menu. My preference would be to simply mouse over a node and see some of that data (as per my opener) in the status bar. Having to click is certainly doable, but it's not smooth. Being able to "ride the map" and "see the sights" along the way is what I'm hoping for.
... Bal
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There are times when I'm looking at a collapsed node and I don't recall how many nodes lie under it - as children, grandchildren, etc.
I would find it useful to have, perhaps in the status bar, an indication of the total number of descendents, the number of children, and perhaps, though less importantly, the number of grandchildren. I can't think of a time when I would find great-grandchildren or beyond a useful bit of data, as it could be coarsely understood by subtracting the number of children and grandchildren from the total number of descendents.
I'm thinking something like this in the status bar as I mouse over or click a node.
D = descendents
C = children
G = grandchildren
The total number of greats and beyond = 115 - 33 = 82
Not super-important, but I would find it useful.
.. Bal
+1
I can't remember ever wishing for something like this but now that you mention it, I suspect I would use it down the road.
This is pretty specific. At the same time, it's easy with a script. But I
would use a pop up in the aforementioned script, instead of the s-bar.
Hi Bal,
try: ctrl + alt + #. The result comes quite close to your request.
Kind regards, Ay
I appreciate the response guys...
Miguel - I'm taking your meaning as what is called a tooltip rather than a
pop-up dialog? If so, could go either way.
Fpay,
ctrl + alt + # doesn't seem to do anything on my system. What are you
seeing? Could it be a keyboard combo that activates a menu item?
Thanks.
Bal
Sorry, this is my short-cut.
I wanted to suggest to use the mindmap-statistics in combination with a short-cut.
Kind regards, Ay
Thanks for clarifying it. Yes - I was aware of the Map Statistics on the File menu. My preference would be to simply mouse over a node and see some of that data (as per my opener) in the status bar. Having to click is certainly doable, but it's not smooth. Being able to "ride the map" and "see the sights" along the way is what I'm hoping for.
... Bal