On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Ronald L. Chichester wrote:
> Zach Frey wrote:
> > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > It is not easy, Dia contains none of the structure that such a model
> > > contains, it describes a graphical diagram, and only that. Extending it to
> > > encompass a specific structural model (be it UML, modelica or whatever)
> > > will take a lot of work and will result in a program structured
> > > quite different from Dia, so different in fact, that i think it would be
> > > easier to just start from scratch.
> >
>
> I may be a little off base here, but please hear me out. There may be a
> solution to this problem (i.e., add more functionality to Dia without
> having to write code from scratch). What if Dia added a property to
> each object (such as a UML object) that was a file address of an
> executable code?
I think this could be a valid idea. But don't just limit the ``attribute''
to file names of an executable: it could be function calls and
application-specific data structures.
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