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
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Christian López Espínola

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