Daniel Tourde wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been DIA (0.84) to produce UML schemes for quite a while now and
> I'm really happy with it, however I have some remarks/questions.
>
> I am trying to produce UML Sequence diagrams and I have some problems. I
> might have misunderstood the use of DIA or it might appear to be
> features not implemented yet. If some one could light my way, I would
> really be very grateful...
>
> Sequence diagrams are based on the extensive use of lifelines. During a
> lifeline, an object can be buzy several time but unfortunately DIA
> provides only one "buzy" area per lifeline. For the time being I simply
> put one lifeline after the other but I don't think it is clean. It
> should be a very nice feature if the number of "buzy" period in a
> lifeline could be chosen.
>
> An object might send a message to himself, unfortunately, there is no
> way to draw such a message. For the moment DIA only allows messages from
> one object to an other.
>
I would suggest the removal of the connectors. I want to be able to
connect to the lifeline anywhere, not just at some predefined points.
Note that this also applies to other UML objects. The restriction the
connectors place on you are really annoying.
I don't know about the complexity of modifying DIA to support this but
it sure would be nice to have this feature, making DIA more flexible.
Jens
