Author Topic: Class attribute/method rendering and ordering (Read 6524 times)

SF_lt · « **on:** February 13, 2006, 08:21:06 am »

Would like to see more intelligent class attributes/method rendering, when there is not specified type:
right now if type is left blank, attributes and methods are rendered as attribute1: and Method1(): - should be attribute1 and Method1()
Use colon for rendering only if type field is not blank - it's not hard to implement

Also in latests builds manual attribute/method ordering feature dissolved - there were 2 little thumbs to move attribute/method up and down - now only an empty space is left

Who stole those pretty thumbs? guess, sparxians need to do full investigation on this matter

SF_lt · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2006, 08:22:56 am »

registered as a bug

Eve · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2006, 12:53:47 pm »

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Also in latests builds manual attribute/method ordering feature dissolved - there were 2 little thumbs to move attribute/method up and down - now only an empty space is left

Who stole those pretty thumbs? guess, sparxians need to do full investigation on this matter

Tools | Options | Sort Features Alphabetically.

thomaskilian · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2006, 01:01:11 pm »

What did you tell me about the FAQ lately?

Eve · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2006, 01:29:50 pm »

To wait until the next build to have this one resolved.

SF_lt · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2006, 12:24:51 am »

yeah, that's nice - why sort was turned on by default?
Many users (and I) got confused by this

maybe better solution would be to disable thumbs when sort on, but not to hide totally

thomaskilian · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2006, 03:23:53 am »

In this case they would have asked whey it's greyed out... Better this option had never been turned on by default. From a requirements analysis standpoint I'd guess this one was invented by some programmers, not by the users

Eve · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2006, 01:13:48 pm »

It was turned on by default because that is the behaviour shown by not just UML tools in general, but most tools that list attributes and operations. By doing so it makes it easier to find things in the list among other reasons.

There are some circumstances that this isn't as convenent. For example, the ordering in tables and enumerations is significant.

SF_lt · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2006, 03:58:59 pm »

it has good reasoning, but in such case I would made disabled, but visible (greyed) thumbs if sorting on

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