[Uml-devel] use case styles

[Jonathan Riddell]

I was wondering, how come use cases are represented with the label outside
the oval.  Every book that I've seen shows them inside the oval, which I
think makes more sence.  A patch that I made (purely for my own interest)
to change this is below.

Jonathan Riddell

--- usecasewidget.cpp.orig      Fri Oct 19 15:05:47 2001
+++ usecasewidget.cpp   Fri Oct 19 15:07:32 2001
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
        QFontMetrics fm = fontMetrics();
        int fontHeight  = fm.lineSpacing();
        int w = width();
-
+
        int middleX = w / 2;
        int textStartY = UC_HEIGHT + UC_MARGIN;
-
-       p.drawEllipse(middleX - UC_WIDTH / 2, 0, UC_WIDTH, UC_HEIGHT);
+
+       p.drawEllipse(middleX - w / 2, 0, w, w / 2);
        p.setPen(black);
-       p.drawText(UC_MARGIN, textStartY, w - UC_MARGIN * 2, fontHeight,
AlignCenter, name());
+       p.drawText(UC_MARGIN, (w / 4) - (fontHeight / 2), w - UC_MARGIN *
2, fontHeight, AlignCenter, name());
        p.setPen(lineColor);
        if(mouseOver)
                drawMouseOver(&p);
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
        int fontHeight  = fm.lineSpacing();
        int textWidth = fm.width(name());
        int width = textWidth > UC_WIDTH?textWidth:UC_WIDTH;
-       int height = UC_HEIGHT + fontHeight + UC_MARGIN;
-
+        int height = (width / 2) + UC_MARGIN;
+
        width += UC_MARGIN * 2;
        resize(width, height);
 }