Add the term 'Nudge' to the help documentation

[operaman]

Hi -

I've been using EA daily for over a month now and just found out that diagram elements can be 'Moved in increments' by using keyboard shortcut of shift + arrow (up, right, down, left).  I am nearly certain that this diagramic action of moving elements is usually called 'nudging'.  I've been frustrated many times for the want of 'nudge' capability in diagrams - and always resorted to using the element / object alignment tools (which work great - but aren't the be-all and end-all. I scanned the help documents, the EA website, and this forum looking for the word 'nudge' and alas could not find it.

Is it possible to add the terminology of 'nudge' to the help documentation? This may help future users to find this functionality faster.

I would even go one step further and make the 'Move element by increments' the default behaviour when an arrow key is pressed (by itself) in a diagram (as opposed to selecting the next element at the next 'tab stop') - and make shft + arrow select the next element.

[«Midnight»]

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I would even go one step further and make the 'Move element by increments' the default behaviour when an arrow key is pressed (by itself) in a diagram (as opposed to selecting the next element at the next 'tab stop') - and make shft + arrow select the next element.

Or perhaps make the default action an option the user could set...

Have you submitted the feature request to Sparx yet? If not, please paste in the URL to this thread when you do.

David

[RoyC]

Concerning the addition of the term 'Nudge' to the Help documentation - well, all I needed was a slight nudge. It's done, and will be visible in the next release.

To change the default behavior, you should still submit a feature request to Sparx Support. Thanks.

[operaman]

Thanks Roy. I will submit a feature request along this line as well. There is tonnes of stuff to learn about the EA tool - because indeed the features are very rich. (I started working with UML tools in '98 using something called Riverton HOW together with PowerBuilder, and then later purchased Rational Rose Modeler Edition (just before they sold to IBM). I've been enjoying learning EA.

Cheers!