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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: fwoolz on June 09, 2003, 07:48:14 am

Title: Sticky Relationships
Post by: fwoolz on June 09, 2003, 07:48:14 am

Hello All,

One "nice to have" would be an option to make the last relationship selection "sticky," that is, have EA remember the last relationship selected and stay in "add relationship" mode so that several relationships of the same type can be added w/o re-clicking on the palette for each one.

Cheers,
Fred Woolsey

Title: Re: Sticky Relationships
Post by: DMT on June 09, 2003, 09:35:14 am

One way that might be nice for this to work is to make it work like the format painter in Microsoft apps.  If you double-click a relationship type in the toolbox, it is put in "repeat mode," until you single-click the relationship type again.

Title: Re: Sticky Relationships
Post by: kelly_sumrall on June 09, 2003, 09:53:27 am

This can already be done by pressing the F3 key before adding a relationship.

Title: Re: Sticky Relationships
Post by: fwoolz on June 09, 2003, 12:56:24 pm

Kelly,

Thanks... I dinna know that!  However, you need to press F3 for each connector you add... the "sticky" option would be a bit of an improvement, since you could go on adding connectors 'til the proverbial cows come home w/o any additional action.

Cheers & Thanks,
Fred Woolsey

Title: Re: Sticky Relationships
Post by: kelly_sumrall on June 09, 2003, 02:34:12 pm

Fred,

I see what you mean.  When clicking an object, how would EA know to draw a connector instead of move the object?

Title: Re: Sticky Relationships
Post by: DMT on June 10, 2003, 12:00:02 pm

The same way it knows not to move the object when you press F3.  If you're in "connector-mode," it draws connectors.

Basically, we're asking for an "automatic-F3," to prevent you from having to press the F3 key after each connector.  My proposal is to turn this feature on by double-clicking the connector icon in the toolbox.

Of course, using F3 is pretty fast if you just hover your finger over the key while drawing connectors, so this probably is not a very high priority feature. There's an easy and effective solution already in place.

Title: Re: Sticky Relationships
Post by: fwoolz on June 10, 2003, 03:33:35 pm

DMT,

Agreed... as I said, a "nice to have," but not high on the "to do" list.

Cheers,
Fred Woolsey