Re: Dia comments...

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 24 Oct 2003, Nicholas Palmer wrote:
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> Hey all,
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> I am new to Dia and am quite impressed. Nice work folks!

Thank you!

> I noticed however that comments are only a single line. I am looking at
> modifying dia2code to output the comments and would really like to have
> multi-line comments in the output. Is this something that dia has plans
> for and is actively being worked on or would a contribution of this be
> welcomed.

It's not something that's been mentioned before, but I see how it'd be good
for embedded JavaDoc etc.  It shouldn't be hard, you just have to make sure
that old diagrams can still be loaded.  There's already a working
multistring property.

> The long term goal is to be able to generate the schema and all my EJBs
> from the UML diagram, which means I need to document the Xdoclet tags
> for the EJBs in the comments section.

That's quite a goal.  There was also talk about getting the property
widgets needed to make the UML objects be fully StdProp compliant, but I
haven't heard anything from that for a while.

-Lars

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