Re: adding connection points to UML class diagrams?

[Alexander <RittervomNie web de>]

Tim Olsen schrieb:
> Can you name the points and also represent their location by the
> polygon side and a double between 0 and 1?

With a new tool "Move connection point" you could even place your cp 
wherever you want. This would also be a nice feature for rectangles and 
activity foci on life lines (sequence diagram). It's a bit tricky to create 
recursive calls. Needs rectangles to be stacked and arrows not being connected.

If you apply this change also to line you got a higher level of 
abstraction. Add/remove cp for every "shaped" element and a container for 
the bunch of cp-s per shape-border. (to make it more dynamical a container 
of containers, so you can add and possibly move cp-s for any n-sided 
shape.) You could also read this cp-border from svg-shapes by defining a 
path with a proper id-attribute.
> -Tim
>
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:41:13 +0100 (CET), Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
>
> > Tim Olsen sagde:
> >
> > > I would like to be able to add arbitrary connection points to the
> > > class element.  is this possible?
> >
> > It would get even trickier if we wanted an arbitrary number of points on
> > the top or bottom, which I'm sure somebody would want.  But that would
> > require some interface to add points.
> >
> > -Lars