RE: Contact points

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

On Saturday, 8 September 2001 Ryan Boder [mailto:boder@cmu.edu] wrote:
> I just started using dia along with alot of the people in my 
> distributed
> embedded systems class for making UML diagrams. In the 
> documentation it
> says that by middle clicking on an object you can add contact 
> points to it
> so that the associations and lines and stuff will stick to 
> it. But every
> time I try to do that no contact point is added and instead a disabled
> menu appears that says "No object menu".
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is the documentation wrong? If 
> so how can I
> add more contact points to an object? It's kind of tedious 
> moving all the
> lines 1 by 1 when I move an object just because there aren't enough
> contact points to sttch them.

It is only possible (currently) to add connection points to line objects
(e.g. line, zigzag and polyline) using this method.

One method (a hack) for adding connection points to objects is by placing a
line along the  edge you wish to add connection points to and then adding
connection points to the line. 
 
Hope this helps.

Rob.