Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
> On 4 Feb, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> > I'd like the bounding box as a hint when creating the diagram (as with the
> > grid: the user specifies (in real coordinates) width and hight and the box
> > is (optionally) drawn.
>
> Yeah, this is probaly what i'm gonna do. Optional is always good.
> Which version should i choose... all of them :)
>
> > With respect to scaling, as I already mentioned, I think it would be nice
> > to have a tool to select between discrete scaling factors, so hi can remember
> > it from one diagram to the next so all text can be made equally sized etc.
>
> Uhm? I don't think i understand exactly what you mean. Could you give
> an example (from a users perspective) how this would work?
Well, it's not really a scaling issue but rather a size issue:
right now you have one standard size for text in a class name, operations etc.
where you derive the appropriate sizes for class boxes and other symbols from.
This makes a class box rigid with respect to resize.
So it would be good to have some global 'sizing tool' somewhere to let the user choose
the size of the diagram (the symbols therein). (small, medium, large, extra large).
I mean, the important point is not necessarily that it's discrete but that it is
visual so when creating and saving a diagram I control the size and can use this
very size for other diagrams too so that the symbols in different diagrams don't
differ regardless the size of the diagram, which depends on the number of involved
objects...
Stefan
PS: practically this could mean that you keep somewhere in the program a list
of scaling factors which are used when drawing the objects on the screen and
especially when printing. This way you can hard-code the intrinsical sizes of
objects but every view of them has to be scaled by this factor.
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
