On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > but I'm usually a KDE/Qt programmer and not a Gnome/Gtk guy (or is that
> > heresy?))
> Ahhh!! Heresy! Kill him!! :)
Well gee, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition,
> > * The polyline doesn't seem to work at all: ik get a line with two
> > endpoints and no other handles or connections.
> Use the middle mouse button on the selected polyline, then you get a menu
> where you can add/remove points.
OK. That works for me. Don't you just *love* documentation? And the way it
can prevent clueless newbies from asking the same #$&%^ questions over and
over and over again? (Actually, most of the time it doesn't).
With polyline working properly my next question becomes moot, actually:
why don't lines have connection points at their ends? The way it is now,
you can attach a line to something by dropping its handle on a connection
point, but you can't attach something to (the endpoint) of a line. This is
a bit lacking in orthogonality. [So I naively recoded connpoint_putonline
or whatever it is and got a connection point at the end of a line, works
great except the handle that is *also* there keeps attaching to the
connection point of the same line. It works for me though.]
> I think this is fixed in the CVS version.
Speaking of CVS: is there any policy about writing to the repository? I
mean, can any old bonehead (read: moi) go in and mess with the code? For
example things I'd like to fix:
* The location of the connection points on a UML actor
* The properties dialog for a UML message is not filled in correctly
* The font size for a UML message isn't respected when loading a diagram
* A "recursive" message in't exactly recursive, it's a "message to self".
* And drawing a message to the corners of the rectangle and changing the
messagetype to "recursive" to get the rectangle isn't what I'd call
intuitive.
* It'd be nice if one could draw a "stick" or "spacer" which is an
invisible line of *fixed*length* (unless you move the handles yourself)
with a connection point at one end (or heck, in the middle like it is
in lines now). This would be useful for sticking text to a line:
1) draw line
2) attach stick to connection point of line
3) attach text to ther other end of the stick
right now you can attach a text to a connection point of a line, but
you're stuck with putting the handle on the line itself (or so it
seems, maybe someone has a sneaky trick for that) Which makes the text
overlap the line in many cases. Perhaps an additional "offset from
handle" attribute for text would do the same thing.
* Speaking of extra text attributes, how about rotating text?
> Ummm, yeah, why... This is just polishing that just hasn't been done...
I get it! It's a 0.xx release! This isn't *finished* software yet! Gosh.
Where is my mind. [note to sarcasm-impaired: the 'flu has addled my
brain.]
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