Name labels WAY TOO LONG

[Paolo F Cantoni]

I've seen this most recently on BPMN diagrams, but I suspect it's a general problem.  When the name of the element is required to be outside the shape (such as a BPMN Message element), the size of the label for selection purposes is WAY TOO BIG - often more than THREE times the size of the actual text contained within.   This make it REALLY annoying when you select something and find that EA has selected a Text label for which the actual text can often be centimeters away!

Reported,
Paolo

[Paolo F Cantoni]

As predcited,here's another manifestation:
selection area for floating labels

Paolo

[Eve]

Unfortunately, neither the first or last report on this one I'm sure.

It's a known limitation of our shape scripting support. You'll see the same thing showing in a different way when you have a long name in any other shape scripted object.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Unfortunately, neither the first or last report on this one I'm sure.

It's a known limitation of our shape scripting support. You'll see the same thing showing in a different way when you have a long name in any other shape scripted object.

Simon,

It's not a long name - the name is short, the label is BIG.

[Example..........................................]

(The dots represent visual space - the brackets the vertices of the selectin area).

Is that what you meant?

Paolo

[Eve]

No...

Shape scripts don't feed back the drawn text back. This means floating labels have to be larger and means that you can get text drawn outside of the bounds of objects when you have a long name.

Same issue, two very different common complaints.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

No...

Shape scripts don't feed back the drawn text back. This means floating labels have to be larger and means that you can get text drawn outside of the bounds of objects when you have a long name.

Same issue, two very different common complaints.

OK,  I understand now...

However, it would seem to me that if that's the case, then a short label where EVERY text would be drawn outside the selection box, but you could always select by picking the left hand end would be a better solution - like:
[Exam]ple

This would seem to me to be the least worst option - since you can ALREADY create selection areas that are smaller than the text to be selected (often accidentally).  Turn a vice into a virtue?  

Paolo