Re: Diagrams within Diagrams

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:14 +0200, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I wonder wheter it is possible to include a dia file within a diagram?
>
> I guess its more of a feature wish rather than a question. We have been
> working for quite some time with dia to create uml class diagrams which
> we later on use to generate perl code.  In the begining we kept all
> classes within one diagram. But as development progressed and the
> project grew it became clumsy and we began dividing into multiple
> diagrams. Still it would be nice to have an "overview" diagram which
> shows the entire system, we have made a few of those by hand, but it
> would be ultracool if we could just open a diagram which "includes"
> (think C #include) the others. Maybe something for a future release?
> What do you think?

It's a great idea, and has already been mentioned, I think there's even
a Bugzilla request for it.

>  Meanwhile, is it possible to generate shapes or
> something that could be included, if so I could create a Makefile or a
> script for it.

Not quite sure what you mean here.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>