Re: Adding a Minus-Sign to an Arrowhead

[Pooya <Input Pooya de>]

Hi Steffen, Hi Hans,

> * Take a box
> * Make the box match the background color

Yes, but how to get rid of its border? (I use for example "perfect sqare")


> * Make the box small
> * Snap text, arrow and box
>  * Move the box around
>
> Grouping text and box might also be interesting, because it prevents
> accidential box resizes.
> Sounds complicated? You'll find that this solution will give you much
> more fine-grained
> layout control than a simple solution.

Ok, this sounds god. So I let my text snap to a box, which itself will snap to the arrow heads.


> If that doesn't work: A minus sign should be the simplest shape one can
> create.

Absolutely right. I guess, this is what I am going to to.


Hans Breuer wrote:
> You can connect text to a line, but only add connections points.
> To have it near the arrow you probably need to add some connectecion
> points to the line first (with the object context menu).

Hm. Yes, this works. But unfortunately not with zigzag-line.


> Another way could be dedicated lines e.g. from the UML sheet,
> but than you are restrcted to a small set of predefined arrows.
> See UML Aggregation for an example.

Which lines would that be from the UML-Sheet? I could not find out.


Thank you very much
cheers