[kepler-dev] [Bug 1845] - user input for port type should not be case sensitive

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845





------- Additional Comments From ldowney at lternet.edu  2005-12-19 08:06 -------
The issue here involves a couple of different things.

1.  when first tested, the user had to exactly type something in for the 
system to recognize it.  That is way too much burden on the user.  I very much 
doubt there are many users that really want to assign string and STRING to be 
two different types! :-)

2.  the second issue is that a set of common data types should be offered to 
the user so they don't have to type at all if they are choosing a standard 
type.

3.  it should really be a combo box so a user can indeed add/specify a type 
that is not part of the standard set (I can't remember where but I wrote a bug 
that talked about using combo boxes where possible in whatever situation we 
had that there was generally a standard set of choices but also allows for 
customization by the user.  And if a user created a new type for example 
called String, then for that user String should subsequently show up as a 
choice.  We could also consider allowing users to "globally" add new types so 
they are available for other users.)