I ended up moving back to an older release. As far as maintaining an existing diagram the new design might not be a big deal, but for creating one it's a bit of a pain.
I'll check out the beta soon. Should I put in a feature request to get those options back down where I was accustomed to using them or are they gone for good? Daniel On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Bob Tarling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel > > I didn't think the feature would be any great loss as the New > Attribute button in the class diagram toolbar still operates. However > I may have been wrong in that assumption. > > You can still use the Add Attribute in the class diagram toolbar at > any time. You can either create one at a time and add the details as > you create each one or I tend to create all that I need by hitting Add > multiple times and then edit using the panels or directly onto the > diagram. Hopefully this is a workaround for you for now. > > What I missed is the fact that you may actually not have the diagram > visible at the time. I appreciate the mouse movement distance could > also be a usability issue. > > Do please use our latest beta as there have been other criticisms of > the new panels that we have addressed already and you will find the > latest version has improved. See - > http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/argouml-0.30.1.BETA_3/ > > You will find that the navigation between panels has been improved as > has the fact that the panels remember which controls you have > expanded. > > The main reason for the new panels is they are data driven rather than > having each panel coded from scratch as we had before. This has > allowed us to reduce our code base to make everything much more > maintainable and has given us a more flexible way of moving from > UML1.4 to UML2.x. The intention was not to lose any required user > features in improving the code base though. > > The second major change are the collapsible controls. This was > intended because so many lists meant that each single list could show > only few items. It may be that many lists were in fact empty and the > intent was the user could choose which are important to show more rows > within. As I said previously, move to the new beta to see the > improvements for this. > > The third change is that the context (right click) menus have been > replaced by button to make the existence of the functionality clearer. > > Please do raise an issue though. If the new panels are causing some > usability issues I want them addressed. > > What I would propose is to have a button in the toolbar for new > sibling. So if on an attribute panel you would have a toolbar button > for "New Sibling Attribute" which would create a new attribute in the > same classifier the existing attribute is in. > > Regards > > Bob > > On 22 April 2010 18:31, Daniel Watrous <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. I used to be able to add >> new attributes easily. When I finished adding one there was an option >> directly above the Name box where I could choose to create a new one >> (in fact I think I could do several things). Now the only option is >> to add a new stereotype. This means that I have to navigate back to >> the class, click the plus (+) next to the attributes and choose new >> attribute there. This painfully increases the amount of time that it >> takes me to define class attributes now. >> >> Was this an intended change that gave way to a new mechanism? If so, >> how do I do it? Otherwise, should i post a bug? >> >> Thanks, >> Daniel >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2592762 >> >> To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: >> [[email protected]]. >> > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2595063 > > To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: > [[email protected]]. > ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2608146 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]].
