Re: python, UML, autorouting/layouting

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 30.10.2010 20:55, Andreas Leue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to create some edit dialogs to automate recurring work in UML
> diagrams. I'm able to create e.g. new classes or comments and attach them to a
> selected core classe with a dependency arrow.
>
> That works, but my dependency arrow is not layouted correctly in the first
> place. It is connected to the classes on both sides, so if I move these
> classes a tiny bit arround the autorouting/layouting is activated and
> everything looks nice. But I cannot find out how to automatically activate
> that layouting. I tried all combinations of update methods I could find, but
> to no avail.
Without your source it is only a guess, but doesn't
        diagram.update_connections (o)
as in 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/plug-ins/python/autolayoutforce.py do 
the trick?

> Is this possible? Or do I have to calculate the first layout of the arrow
> myself? I tried this, too, since I can get the coords of the handles, but then
> I could not find a way to set coords on dependency arrows.
This should not be necessary.

> Thanks in advance for any help and thanks a lot for providing dia!

Thanks,
        Hans

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