Self-references and cardinality: text obscured

[kiwi]

Hi guys...

hey cool, self-references are drawn really nicely (just click on a node, that defines the start and end point)!

-Except- when you add cardinality to them, then the arrow heads are obscured by the text.

So I suggest one of two things:

1) allow the resizing of the self-reference link
2) adjust the size of the self-reference loop when the cardinality is nonzero.

Right now I'm not putting cardinality on the diagram because it looks horrible.

cheers!
Julian

(PS could you change the default search engine date range to something like 700 days instead of 7 days? It's a bit silly to constrain the search by default to just the last week... thanks!)

[gsparks]

Hi Julian,

Ill check out what can be done to 'un-obscure' the cardinality on self-reference .. should be possible to move a couple of labels around a bit.

The labels will be 'placeable' at some tie in the future .. but in the meantime Ill look at a better default placement.

Sorry - which Search Engine are you referring to?

Geoff Sparks

[kiwi]

Thanks Geoff!

Re: Search engine, I'm talking about the forum search engine for the support forums here...

[gsparks]

Hi again,

Just a note that we set the forum search default to 90 days ... this seemed a reasonable compromise. My feeling is that anything beyond 90 days may be misleading where application features and bug fixes are concerned. General topics maybe not - but you can still extend the time period where necessary. 7 days was obviously too short.

The next update of EA, which should be out tomorrow (Monday) has reworked the self reference labels to give a clearer display. Hope it helps.

Geoff

[kiwi]

Re: update to self-references... wow, that's just so amazing Geoff... send a request for a change in a commercial app and have it actually LIVE within a WEEK that's truly exceptional!

One question: this is more complex, but it's quite tedious to download the entire new app and deinstall/reinstall each time... is it possible in future to have a patcher? Much faster and easier for all!

cheers!
Julian.

[gsparks]

Hi Julian,

We already distribute a 'patch' version of EA (registered version only) with every minor update ... its about 2.1MB as opposed to over 10MB for the full release. This is just an installer that contains the latest EA.exe and readme.txt with changes and bug fixes - when you run it, just make sure you specify the same EA install directory as when you first installed EA.

This is available in the registered user section of the website ... follow the download links.

Geoff

[kiwi]

It's the coolest thing to see a feature request in a commercial product appear like, a WEEK after sending the request.

Superb. Nothing less.

Cheers Geoff and the rest of the Sparx team!

[manfred]

Hi Geoff,

While you are looking into self references, could you please activate (part of) the direction selection. It is neccessary to have also non-directional self references (without arrow head).

Thanks in advance,

Manfred