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Paolo F Cantoni

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No Rectangular Notation for Actions
« on: September 22, 2009, 07:21:51 am »
In answering: Display notes text in element, I observed that Actions don't have the capability to render in Rectangular Notation.

Why are Actions the second class citizens?  Don't they have a right to be rendered in Rectangular Notation?

As I've said elsewhere - EVERY Element should be renderable in Rectangular Notation.

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Re: No Rectangular Notation for Actions
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2009, 03:35:59 pm »
I've received the following response from Sparx:

I cannot see any reason why Actions should not allow Rectangle Notation.
I have submitted a feature request so that the ability to display any element using Rectangle Notation is considered for implementation in a future release of EA.


Cool!  8-)

Hopefully it won't be too hard to implement and we can get it quickly as it will solve a pile of other issues for these "second class citizens".

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Re: No Rectangular Notation for Actions
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2010, 01:27:22 pm »
See: Rectangular notation for ALL shapes... for more details and to provide support for a fix...

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Re: No Rectangular Notation for Actions
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 08:38:40 pm »
("Sometimes I wonder why OMG doesn't just admit that slow flow charts were a better idea in the first place", he said, reaching for his slide rule and IBM template.)
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