Drag and Drop distorts the shapes

[elijahbaley]

When an uml element is put on a diagram using drag and drop, its shape becomes elongated. This happens only with Class symbols. For example, a class with a few operations becomes a huge rectangle if you d'n'd it on a diagram.

How can this be fixed?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

When an UML element is put on a diagram using drag and drop, its shape becomes elongated. This happens only with Class symbols. For example, a class with a few operations becomes a huge rectangle if you d'n'd it on a diagram.

How can this be fixed?

I think this topic: Setting the REAL default appearance may cover what you are experiencing...

Whatever the shape looks like on the "default diagram", it will appear that way when you drag and drop.  You can test this by changing the layout with Set Feature Visibility [Ctrl+Shift+Y] and dragging it again (once you've "found" the default diagram).

HTH,
Paolo

[elijahbaley]

Well, I think the problem is stranger than it seems ;o) Since the default diagram -where the item was first used- was a sequence diagram in my case, EA tried to reflect the shape of the lifeline (rectangle) of the object of the class!

When I put the class on a class diagram first, I did not have the same problem.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Well, I think the problem is stranger than it seems ;o) Since the default diagram -where the item was first used- was a sequence diagram in my case, EA tried to reflect the shape of the lifeline (rectangle) of the object of the class!

When I put the class on a class diagram first, I did not have the same problem.

Ah... no so fast grasshopper...  The diagram YOU think was where it was first used and the diagram EA thinks it was first used (for the type it is looking for) are not necessarily the same...

Paolo

[elijahbaley]

Well, since I have created these classes on the project explorer, not on a diagram, I have used them for the first time on a sequence diagram.