Re: object access to grid width

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Hans Busch wrote:
> As far as I have seen objects have no "up" pointer to the diagram.
> I'd like to know, whether there is a way for an object to get
> to know the grid width and position such that it can align its
> connection points accordingly. I'd like to improve UML-lifeline 
> such that it automatically adjusts the nubmer of its connection
> points on resising such that these are located on the grid.

There is an up pointer from objects to layers and one from layers to
diagramdata.

If you implement this, what would happen if the grid size was changed?

> Currently it is very hard to manually adjust the count after resizing
> the active part of a lifeline. 
> 
> Is there anyone out there that has an idea how to circumvent the fact 
> that there are two CPLs per side and everything only works for active
> length that are a multiple of two of the grid size? 

???  Is this still about lifeline, or something else?

-Lars

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