[Uml-devel] Re: karbon14 and uml

[Rob Buis]

Hi,

I was just thinking, it may be fun and educative to create some UML diagrams 
of class relations from karbon core/ structure and umbrello DOM :)
Can I easily do this myself? Do such diagrams already exist for umbrello?
Cheers,

Rob.

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 17:20, Andrew Sutton wrote:
> 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