Hi!
I believe that EA's current undo capabilities are very limited, why?
well right now, If by accident I delete anything in the project view... I have lost it forever, and that has happened more often to me, (and my friends) than one may thing (In fact, I failed to introduce EA to a friend precisely because the first time he tried to use it, he spent several hours trying to make lots of related activity diagrams... then he made a mistake.. and deleted hours of work... (after that he refused to use EA ever again)
I believe there are different ways to prevent this:
1) The EA files are basically, databases (I can open them with MS Access) so, wouldn't it be nice if after opening an EA file everything could be inside a transaction? (And the transaction would only commit if the "Save" button is clicked (that way I can make lots of mistakes on project view, and easily revert to the last saved version).
2) Provide a "Recycle Bin" when anything is deleted, instead of really disappearing it could go to a "recycle bin" from where it can be manually retrieved... of course changes in the project structure could make such a retrieval inconsistent... for that case, EA should allow to restore deleted elements "exactly as they were before deleting" or "as detached copies" that can be placed in an independent context.
3) Provide full undo capabilities for every action that can be done in EA the same way MS-Word does it, by providing almost unlimited undo levels (I guess this is the hard way of doing it)
What do you think? Are there any plans to address this issues?
