* When you send a node forward or backward. Embedded child nodes are not moved a long with it. Even though this is the case when moving a node.
* Association can't be sent forwards or backwards
* Moving extra line point is counter intuitive. It just works funny. Mostly you want straight lines. This should belockable. Now you're fidgetting to get something straight. I want to move a line with two line points staying horizontal. Look at ArgoUML. This works a bit more intuitive in this respect. Straight lines tend to stay straight.
* It is not possible to create a transparent boundary with rounded edges. Once you select rounded edges it is fixed to a straight line with yellowish content fill.
* There is no way to draw a free line on a deployment diagram. Not everything can be displayed using squares and default lines.
* It would be great if a boundary could have extra line points so you can influence the shape.
* Right click menu badly organized. Boundary properties, shape and appearance are all display related items. Put them in one menu (e.g. look & feel...) and loose the clutter.
* When you put a transparent boundary over something everything inside (below) it becomes unselectable
* When a line point is close to another object, you cannot select and drag this point. EA always selects the near object. Even when a resize control point is activated by mousing over it.
* If you add a comment to an attachment, the OK button is not activated by default, requiring an extra mouse action for the default behaviour
* The attachpoint to a line for a comment can't be moved, leading the comment to seem attached to the intersecting point of multiple attachments in some cases
General remarks
* Why is there a wordpad and explorer link in the main menu? Don't we have enough menu's already.
* Save projects as doesn't select the current directory of the active EAP file and always defaults to the EAP template directory. Very annoying.
* Not all actions are undoable. E.g. Assigning a fork to an activity cannot be undone with CTRL+Z. This leads to unexpected behaviour. You press CTRL+Z and a previous action gets undone.
* Selected elements in toolbox deselect themselves once the element has been placed on the diagram. This is annoying when you have to create the same element multiple times.
* You can't copy paste elements in a diagram. This is very annoying, especially when you divert from the default shape. I don't see why this can't be done by adding (1) to the name or whatever. I did see that you can control click to create another element, but that has the default shape.
* once a control flow arrow has been attached, the start or end point cannot be connected to another element. This annoying when you have a more complex control flow arrow. This then has to be redrawn.
* When I resize a Fork/join, I don't want the attached controlflow arrows to move along with it. In principle avoiding diagonal lines for control flows and other attachments should be the rule. Should should have some kind of stickyness (perhaps optional) that favours straight lines.
Lots of little issue, lots of big productivity loss and annoyances. One of the things I really do like is the fact that object placed inside a node stick to it, when you move the node.
The proofing in the pudding is in just using the tool to create diagrams. Whenever, something has to be done twice, fiddled around with or redone, this is a suggestion for change. It could also be lack of experience with the tool on my side. This of course suggest better menu organization or RTFM on my part.
Kind regards,
Marc
