[Uml-devel] karbon14 and uml

[Andrew Sutton]

rob,

i've been directed to you by dirk schönberger regarding vector drawing 
applications to be used by a uml editor. karbon14 seems to be exactly what 
we're looking for - it satisfies our minimum requirements (pretty and 
editable), but i had some questions.

it seems pretty natural that uml diagrams are a subset of vector drawings, but 
at the same time they're more and less complicated. for example, we're 
probably not going to have the need for all the graphics support within the 
application like gradients and alpha blends - we might use them, but we 
probably won't have the user configuraing them.

i'm kind of curious how integration might occur. it seems straightforward that 
we'd be required to link against the core library - if its a library. the 
graphical notations would be derived from VComposite (maybe). is there 
anything else in the build environment that would be required or that we 
could take advantage of?

any help information, of course, be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

andrew sutton
ansutton at kent.edu