[Uml-devel] Improved line-object handling in Umbrello

[Sebastian Stein]

mike wakerly <mike at wakerly.com> [030212 22:05]:
> actually, i never closed umbrello until after i wrote that e-mail. i guess i 
> am in for a surprise when i re-open my project, hehe.

Well, now you are mentally prepared ;-)

> i think you're absolutely right; it would be a huge change. i just took a very 

Well, Carsten Pfeiffer found out, that the positions are saved to the xmi
file, but that they are not loaded correctly. So I added this as an bug
report and before the next release it should be fixed.

> quick look at some of the classes and it's pretty obvious it would take me a 
> long time to do. plus other objects might need some modification, too.
> 
> (for instance, in 'dia' for gnome, boundary boxes on objects have anchor 
> points where lines will snap to... but nowhere else. i remember this solution 
> worked well, so long as you only wanted your line to stick to one of 4 or 6 
> places on the object. really you should be able to anchor your line anywhere 
> along the object's edge, not the square mask...)

Yes, I agree that it would be better to move the points along the object
where I want them.

Steinchen
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