Hi Daniel I didn't think the feature would be any great loss as the New Attribute button in the class diagram toolbar still operates. However I may have been wrong in that assumption.
You can still use the Add Attribute in the class diagram toolbar at any time. You can either create one at a time and add the details as you create each one or I tend to create all that I need by hitting Add multiple times and then edit using the panels or directly onto the diagram. Hopefully this is a workaround for you for now. What I missed is the fact that you may actually not have the diagram visible at the time. I appreciate the mouse movement distance could also be a usability issue. Do please use our latest beta as there have been other criticisms of the new panels that we have addressed already and you will find the latest version has improved. See - http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/argouml-0.30.1.BETA_3/ You will find that the navigation between panels has been improved as has the fact that the panels remember which controls you have expanded. The main reason for the new panels is they are data driven rather than having each panel coded from scratch as we had before. This has allowed us to reduce our code base to make everything much more maintainable and has given us a more flexible way of moving from UML1.4 to UML2.x. The intention was not to lose any required user features in improving the code base though. The second major change are the collapsible controls. This was intended because so many lists meant that each single list could show only few items. It may be that many lists were in fact empty and the intent was the user could choose which are important to show more rows within. As I said previously, move to the new beta to see the improvements for this. The third change is that the context (right click) menus have been replaced by button to make the existence of the functionality clearer. Please do raise an issue though. If the new panels are causing some usability issues I want them addressed. What I would propose is to have a button in the toolbar for new sibling. So if on an attribute panel you would have a toolbar button for "New Sibling Attribute" which would create a new attribute in the same classifier the existing attribute is in. Regards Bob On 22 April 2010 18:31, Daniel Watrous <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. I used to be able to add > new attributes easily. When I finished adding one there was an option > directly above the Name box where I could choose to create a new one > (in fact I think I could do several things). Now the only option is > to add a new stereotype. This means that I have to navigate back to > the class, click the plus (+) next to the attributes and choose new > attribute there. This painfully increases the amount of time that it > takes me to define class attributes now. > > Was this an intended change that gave way to a new mechanism? If so, > how do I do it? Otherwise, should i post a bug? > > Thanks, > Daniel > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2592762 > > To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: > [[email protected]]. > ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2595063 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]].
