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Rene T.

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Sequence Diag.: open Message Properties Dialogue
« on: February 24, 2011, 09:02:47 pm »
Aloha!

I remember that ages ago (perhaps EA 7.0 or .5), the Message Properties Dialogue opened up automatically when drawing a message within a Sequence Diagram. This behaviour obviously changed. Or do I miss the option to change the behaviour?

The manual says:

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[...] click on the Message icon, click on the source object and drag the cursor to the destination (target) object. The Message Properties dialog displays (if not, right-click on the Message [...]

Would have been great if the help page would have mentioned how to change that behaviour, if possible at all. It was very handy.

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Re: Sequence Diag.: open Message Properties Dialog
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 09:28:35 pm »
Here it works as expected (using 8.0 862). Maybe you changed something?

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[edit:] Tools/Options/Objects/Links/Edit Connector On New might be the one
« Last Edit: February 24, 2011, 09:29:49 pm by qwerty »

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Re: Sequence Diag.: open Message Properties Dialog
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 11:48:27 pm »
Aloha!

That's it. Didn't change it (probably), but checking the box helped. Thanks a lot!

R.