Hi Tom, I want to share some thoughts with you, I'll do inline.
On 8/8/07, Tom Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current method is definitely going to be hard for anyone to discover on > their own without any visual feedback. On the new implementation, at least we provide more than a rect line, we have a line with knees... but anyway, of course this can be improved. > There probably aren't any great ways to do this without completely changing > the current tool style. I agree with that. At least, it doesn't come to my mind a better way of doing it. > The simplest approach is probably the context menu, > either to create a recursive activation as you mentioned or with something > like: > > Create Self -> Call Message > Return Message > etc ... I think that this can be an alternative way of doing it, but not exclusive. We can provide two ways for doing this to the users. > Alternatively (additionally?) a key modifier (Shift, Ctrl, etc) on the > drawing command which indicates a self message (or a more general "advanced" > drawing mode). IMHO, this will be hidden to most users. I needed a year working with argouml until I discovered that pressing the space bar when in broom mode changes the behaviour of the broom. Any more suggestions are appreciated. I'm sorry I'm not Jakob Nielsen. > Tom > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Regards, Christian López Espínola
