Re: Visible UML Comments

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > We were talking about the UML objects, but if we extend the object menu
> > mechanism anyway, it could apply to shapes, too.  Though better would
> > probably be to have a generic way to keep aspectratio (Shift-drag,
> > perhaps).
>
> There are a few bug reports about having the mouse cursor change for
> various reasons.
>
> The behaviour i would expect would that if you pull the boxes on
> the centre of the vertical/horizontal side the object would only be
> resized vertically/horzintally.
>
> I did expect the diagonal to resize both equally but i am probably just
> imagining it as both OpenOffice Draw and PowerPoint allows free resize
> from the diagonal corner.

Yes, that is the most common behaviour.  I don't know if there's a common
way to do aspect ratio.

> While i am being offtopic... (my bad)
> would it be easy to adapt the rounded rectantle in the UML sheet to be a
> generic Rounded Rectangle?

The standard box is actually roundable.

> should i file either of these in bugizlla for tracking?

Please file something about the aspect ratio, yes.

-Lars

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