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qwerty

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Missing Note (Text, etc.) elements in browser
« on: March 31, 2011, 01:50:58 am »
As you know there are a couple of elements which do not appear in the project browser. These are at least Notes, Texts and Boundaries. These explicitly belong to a single diagram (well, more or less as you can re-use them in other diagrams too). However, once you create those elements they lurk around in the model SOMEWHERE. Usually the place is the package where the parent diagram had been located. When you move the diagram, those children stay in the old package. And you don't have a chance to move them along with the diagram. And that is bad.

When I create a documentation I sometimes like to render notes as text along with the diagram for readability reasons. But when the notes are not "nearby" the diagram it will confuse the reader.

Now my question: why not having these elements as siblings of diagrams in the project browser? I don't think it is correct to hide just some elements.

Any opinions?

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Re: Missing Note (Text, etc.) elements in browser
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2011, 06:17:37 am »
I couln't agree more.
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Re: Missing Note (Text, etc.) elements in browser
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2011, 10:36:58 am »
Me too...

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