Re: UML sheet incomplete?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 11 Jan 2003, pvspam-dialist@hacklab.net wrote:
>> The UML sheet seems to be missing the class connection that has a small
>> diamond at one end and nothing at the other.  Am I missing something?
> 
> You're missing something. Aggregation uses diamond at one end, nothing
> at the other. The button on the sheet even kinda looks like it.
> 
>> And I'm distressed to report that the arrow heads on Association just
>> don't point the right way.
> 
> This screenshot was made w/ Dia:
> 
> http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/sampleImages/TestERD.png
> 
> It's possible. There's a learning curve with getting
> associations/aggregations to point right, have the association name in a
> desired position, etc, but it's possible. I think I've heard it said
> that the GNOME2 port of Dia (0.9x) will have better handling of this
> type of thing, but perhaps not in the UML sheet itself, since it's an
> orphaned beast of sorts.

A better zigzag-line creation system has been done in CVS for the basic
objects, but needs to be added to the UML objects.  At some point, we will
need to make autorouting, but figuring that out is a lot of work.

-Lars

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