Display summary of program by hovering or clicking on node.

[GREENRAT-K405]

Currently, users must open or inspect individual nodes to understand their specific logic or configuration. In large or complex graphs, this makes it difficult to quickly visualize the overall program flow.

I propose adding a "Quick View" feature that displays a summary of the node's logic/parameters when a user interacts with it.

Trigger: Hovering over a node (or single-clicking).

how do i plan to implement it?

1. have a summary string variable in program itself that can be displayed.
2. user themself add summary to a node

This feature could be a big quality of life for people who just care about viewing the flow of graph. Also, in general this is a good thing to have.

[GREENRAT-K405]

@pradeeban what do you say about this feature? any better way to implement something like this?

[GREENRAT-K405]

@pradeeban , maybe a silly question to ask but, you updated the readme for alaska/gsoc few days ago and for the project of controlcore, there is a code challenge as "Code Challenge: Demonstration of previous expertise in Julia and Python can be beneficial."

May I know what are your expectations for it/ what counts as proof? Do you mean contributing to julia/python code of the repo or some previously built personal project on julia or python. Your answer will help out a lot! as I am trying to contribute to Alaska for this year's GSOC.

[pradeeban]

I simply mean having some experience in Julia and Python. Toy/personal projects are sufficient.

"have a summary string variable in program itself that can be displayed." How are you planning to have that summary variable in the programs? The existing concore programs do not have this. So how do you ensure backward compatibility in this situation?

[GREENRAT-K405]

@pradeeban this is the plan to ensure backward compatibility:

1. the summary variable will be optional during the loading/parsing(parseNode function) stage.
   when the editor loads the concore programs it will try to read summary field. If the field is empty (which it will be in the old/legacy concore programs), we can just assign "" empty string. This will ensure program runs errorless.

2. saving logic: If we want to add summary to the existing programs(nodes) that too can be done by updating summary field from either updating the program itself (not practical way to do so for old programs) or simply update or add summary from the graph editor itself (better way).

3. as for the new concore programs, the summary variable could be a standard part of the program.

[pradeeban]

@GREENRAT-K405 sure, go ahead. Pls test in Chrome and make sure it does not create any lag.