Re: UML module hackery

[David Hickerson <dahicke datawest net>]

I have done enough class diagrams in Rat Rose to hate the way they do 
lines, and I am sure that
everyone has opinion one way or the other. I suggest the API 
programmer's approach: "Extend
do not change". Make it an option of the line to behave either way or 
make additional new lines.

There is definely one improvement needed for lines. And that is the 
arrow head needs to also be
manully rotatable. Having the line horizontal and the arrow head 
vertical when connected to a
class because the line is pixel hair off the point of connection is 
pain. Give me a control point for
the rotation of the arrow head.

And I total agree about the labels. Moble like on the interface shape.

Matthew Palmer wrote:

> * Dia lines suck hard.  This is the thing which struck me first when trying
> it out, and they still give me the s**ts.  Both the 'up and across' nature
> of them, and the 'tie points' they work with.  I propose to make them more
> RR-like, by:
>
>         * In class diagrams having the terminus of the line in the centre of
>         the object, and then rendering the line only in those points where
>         it isn't inside an object.  Also, any arrows or other symbols would
>         get rendered at the edge of the object.  Toss out tie-points
>         completely.  Yuck.
>
>         * In other types of objects, toss tie points and do vaguely similar
>         things to the class diagrams above (but, not having played as much with
>         those, I don't have as much of an idea about those).
>
> * Make labels (of all sorts) more mobile, and clean up the default placement
> of multiplicity tags.