ui improvements

src/rider/main/kotlin/com/jetbrains/rider/plugins/odatacliui/dialogs/CliDialog.kt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import com.intellij.openapi.ui.DialogWrapper
 import com.intellij.openapi.ui.DialogPanel
 import com.intellij.ui.components.JBTabbedPane
 import com.intellij.ui.dsl.builder.*
+import com.jetbrains.rider.plugins.odatacliui.extensions.emptyText
 import com.jetbrains.rider.plugins.odatacliui.models.CliDialogModel
 import javax.swing.JComponent
 
@@ -52,31 +53,35 @@ class CliDialog(private val model: CliDialogModel) : DialogWrapper(false) {
         row("--file-name") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("The name of the generated file. If not provided, then the default name 'Reference.cs' is used", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .emptyText("Default: Reference.cs")
+                .comment("The name of the generated file")
                 .bindText(model.fileName)
         }
         row("--namespace-prefix") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("The namespace of the client code generated. <b>Example: NorthWindService.Client</b> or it could be a name related to the OData endpoint that you are generating code for", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .comment("The namespace of the client code generated")
                 .bindText(model.namespacePrefix)
         }
         row("--excluded-operation-imports") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("Comma-separated list of the names of operation imports to exclude from the generated code. <b>Example: ExcludedOperationImport1, ExcludedOperationImport2</b>", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .emptyText("Example: ExcludedOperationImport1, ExcludedOperationImport2")
+                .comment("Comma-separated list of the names of operation imports to exclude from the generated code")
                 .bindText(model.excludedOperationImports)
         }
         row("--excluded-bound-operations") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("Comma-separated list of the names of bound operations to exclude from the generated code. <b>Example: BoundOperation1, BoundOperation2</b>", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .emptyText("Example: BoundOperation1, BoundOperation2")
+                .comment("Comma-separated list of the names of bound operations to exclude from the generated code")
                 .bindText(model.excludedBoundOperations)
         }
         row("--excluded-schema-types") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("Comma-separated list of the names of entity types to exclude from the generated code. <b>Example: EntityType1, EntityType2, EntityType3</b>", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .emptyText("Example: EntityType1, EntityType2, EntityType3")
+                .comment("Comma-separated list of the names of entity types to exclude from the generated code")
                 .bindText(model.excludedSchemaTypes)
         }
         row {
@@ -109,13 +114,15 @@ class CliDialog(private val model: CliDialogModel) : DialogWrapper(false) {
         row("--custom-headers") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("Headers that will get sent along with the request when fetching the metadata document from the service. <b>Format: Header1:HeaderValue, Header2:HeaderValue</b>", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .emptyText("Example: Header1:HeaderValue, Header2:HeaderValue")
+                .comment("Headers that will get sent along with the request when fetching the metadata document from the service", Int.MAX_VALUE)
                 .bindText(model.customHeaders)
         }
         row("--proxy") {
             textField()
                 .align(AlignX.FILL)
-                .comment("Proxy settings. <b>Format: domain\\\\user:password@SERVER:PORT</b>", Int.MAX_VALUE)
+                .emptyText("Example: domain\\\\user:password@SERVER:PORT")
+                .comment("Proxy settings")
                 .bindText(model.proxy)
         }
     }

src/rider/main/kotlin/com/jetbrains/rider/plugins/odatacliui/extensions/UiExtensions.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package com.jetbrains.rider.plugins.odatacliui.extensions
+
+import com.intellij.ui.components.JBTextField
+import com.intellij.ui.dsl.builder.Cell
+
+fun Cell<JBTextField>.emptyText(text: String): Cell<JBTextField> {
+    this.component.emptyText.text = text
+    return this
+}