discussions about usage and development of dia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 19.06.04 04:50:15:
> Hooray for bug sollutions. I'm quite correct when it comes to multiplicities. > Only a hollow or filled diamond is not enough for me, I want zeros, n-s and > m-s and that stuff. > I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. Dia's multiplicity support in > UML Associations is string-based, so you can freely enter "*", "0..1", > "1..5", "yo-mamma" etc I can type this, but it's not being displayed where others could read it. The same like not writing it *g*. Just the alignment problem. > Imagine some for-loop in sequence diagrams, messages with > repetition counts, if-s and stuff. When using actual versions I have to > emulate this by text elements to give a complete description of sequences or > entity-container-relationships... > I can see why loops in sequence diagrams currently need to be created > using the text tool and a rectangle (I wonder how hard it would be to > create a new UML object for this). ...or decisions (is this the right name?) But I think it's not that hard. You just add some textfield for decisions, loops/ loopcount and render this into the message string... > For messages with guards and/or repetition counts, can't you simply > include it as part of the message name? Or were you after a separate > field? ...yes, the same like above. But not everybody, me too, knows loop notation from scratch *g*, where to put square brackets, the star and that sort of things. Reading is much easier, 'cause it's already there *g* > Poor alignment makes a diagram unreadable. Multiplicities drawn within classes > are not quite good. And messages with off-cut underlength letters > (underscore, characters like g) are also hard to read. So I need a > workaround. Using the text element is the only way...until these bugs will be > fixed. > Yeah, I've been using the same work-around (text tool) here :-) > Currently I'm using the text tool for multiplicities, role and > association names, messages - I don't use any of the built-in stuff at > present (because of the alignment problems). I'd like to take part in this and develop some solutions (already coded some UML-Tools, esp. sequence diagrams) but I took a look at the lines of code, the object structure and missed some of the easy Java object strategy. Quite hard to understand 2.000 lines of arrow-producing C-code when you're used to 200 line abstract class modelling *g*. But I'll try it. Why are there no fancy diagrams of dia itself drawn with dia? > Cheers > Andrew _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia _____________________________________________________________________ Wenn Worte allein nicht ausreichen: WEB.DE Video-Mail - Die E-Mail der nachsten Generation! http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021197 _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
