Adding comments in Raptor Flowcharts

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Introduction

Comments in Raptor Flowcharts

Adding a comment

Header Comment

Remove a comment

Adding a comment in OO Mode

Tip

Raptor Tutorials

Introduction

Comments make RAPTOR flowcharts easy to understand by others. Its a good programming practice to add meaningful comments in to flowcharts. In this post, we will learn how to add comments to a RAPTOR flowcharts. Comments are ignored by the interpreter and compiler and are not executed. Comments are meant for the human readers. Comments are especially used where the flowchart flow is complex and hard to understand by others.

Comments in Raptor Flowcharts

Adding a comment

To add a comment to a symbol in Novice & Intermediate mode to the flowchart, right-click on the flowchart symbol and choose Comment. The comment appears as a chat bubble next to the flowchart symbol. Comments can be a single line or multi-line.

Another way is to choose from the menu: Edit >> Comment

Header Comment

We can add programmer header comments to the flowchart Start symbol. Header comments include

Author of the flowchart/program.
Date when the program was written.
General program description of what the flowchart does.

Enter the comment text in the “Enter comment” dialog box. Once you have added the comment click on the Done button. We can double click on the comment bubbles to edit the comment text or modify the comment text. We can also drag and move the comment bubble from flowchart symbol to symbol.

The comment would show up beside the symbol as shown in the picture.

Remove a comment

We can delete a comment by selecting it and right-click choose the delete option.
Another way is to choose from the menu: Edit > Delete option.

Comments add up to the documentation of the flowcharts and programs. They make the flowchart easy to understand by others. If you feel the flow is not self-explanatory add appropriate comments to make them understandable by others.