Re: How to increase connection point on UML classes?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Tim Ellis wrote:
>> > I am using UML classes to try to make an entity-relation diagram for
>> > the purpose of eventually creating a SQL Database script to create
>> > tables with columns, indexes, and foreign-key constrainst.
>> 
>> You're sure you don't want the ER symbols?  And have you looked at
>> Dia2SQL on the Dia links page?
> 
> Dia2SQL assumes you use the UML symbols.
> 
> The ER symbols have 1/10th the desired functionality (a lot less than
> UML).

Ah.  Sorry, I'm not aware of what is useful for making SQL.

> I might need a hint or two about using the latest CVS. I couldn't build
> from source because it wanted my gdk-???-config executable which doesn't
> exist on my system (do I need to install gdk-???-devel packages?).
> 
> It seems to want libpng3 which is odd, because the 0.90 that I installed
> seems to use libpng2 (/usr/lib/libpng.so) which causes wierd graphic
> artifacts in the new dia proggy. What do I need to do about libpng to
> make dia-cvs happy?

Ah.  You need GTK2.0, basically.

If you don't want to deal with that, the patch should work for 0.90.  
It's at <URL:http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84367>.

-Lars

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