[Uml-user] Using object from another View

[Yuri Leikind]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:39:33 +0100
Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

>      On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:42:28PM +0300, Yuri Leikind wrote:
>      
>      > I have a Use Case with an actor called "Foo". Now I need to express the use case in a more precise way - 
>      > via a sequence diagram. Ok, but in Umbrello, sequence diagrams are placed in the Logical View,
>      > and use cases are in Use Case View, and it seems like I cannot use items defined from the Use Case View
>      > in  the Logical View. And there's no actor item in the logical view. Ok, I think, I will just create a new object
>      > in my sequence diagram called "Foo". But, to my astonishment, I get an error dialog "That name is already being used".
>      > 
>      > So, my questions are:
>      > 
>      > 1) Why are object from Use Case View cannot be used in diagrams in the Logical View?
>      
>      It would make sense to allow actors in the sequence diagrams.
>      Currently you can create objects and tell them in the Properties
>      dialogue to be drawn as actors.

That really helps!


>      
>      > 2) If this is so, why not have a separate pool of objects for each view, for I am  not able to create an
>      > object with the same name in another view?
>      
>      That can be reported on bugs.kde.org if you want.

I have done so, the bug is there.

Thanks to all the developers for the tool - it's the only program that
made me install KDE libraries for the first time during 2 years ;-)

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Best regards,
Yuri Leikind