Re: Odp: What do you want to do for Dia 0.97?

["Maciej Jaros" <egil wp pl>]

Hans Breuer wrote:
> Am 16.04.2008 00:15, Maciej Jaros schrieb:
> > 1. Mass changing of UML class (like changing visibility of comments and
> > almost everything else on the first tab).
> > 
> Maybe you can help us improve the NEWS file linked in my original mail
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/dia/trunk/NEWS

I could - you want it in HTML with features grouped in sections? ;P

> The feature you are requesting is hidden behind this paragraph:
> 
>    * a huge step forward regarding properties of grouped objects
>      http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331

Yeah I've read this I wasn't sure if it will include UML classes as they 
seem very specific. Nice to know it will.

> > 2. Support for keys in UML class. I mean something like it's already
> > done for "visibility" of attributes. This is available for many CASE
> > tools and I tend to use Dia as one ;). Main key types could be primary,
> > foreign and partial.
> Do you have some pointer to UML specs. regarding this? For me this sounds
> very much like you are (mis;)using the UML Class for database design.

Have you ever seen a CASE application in which it is done differently? 
Sure, you need to transform classes, but it's almost transparent in the 
ones I used (schema comes almost directly form specially marked classes).

> With 0.97 this will not be necessary anymore due to (again from NEWS):
> 
>    * new database table relation shapes
> 
I thought it was about some new kinds of relations. Nice to know I was 
wrong ;).

> > All of them should be visible as icons in the main
> > view (eg. golden key, silver key and maybe two keys on a keyring). I can
> > try to make those icons if someone would be willing to implement this :).
> > 
> Not me :)

Yeah. But if there will be shapes for tables you have to distinguish 
columns that are keys somehow. Right? Why not use pictures instead of 
standard <<FK>> <<PK>>? Pictures are smaller.

Nux.

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