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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: RNE on July 14, 2005, 05:25:35 am

Title: Copy found classes to the current diagram
Post by: RNE on July 14, 2005, 05:25:35 am

I wonder whether this is possible in a way I am not aware of, or whether there are easier workarounds.
Still, I'd like to see this as a new feature[tte]:

- Ctrl-F - search for classes (for example)
- Hit new button (possibly with shortcut) to copy the SELECTED classes
 to the current diagram (ask whether links, copies or instances - same as if dragged from proj.view)

Right now, the workaround I have is very complicated if
many classes are selected:
- one by one locate them in project view
- then drag-drop them to the diagram

Thanks for any comments

Richard

Title: Re: Copy found classes to the current diagram
Post by: RNE on September 21, 2005, 02:35:10 am

Any suggestions or comments?

Title: Re: Copy found classes to the current diagram
Post by: thomaskilian on September 21, 2005, 04:26:19 am

I have the feeling that EA does not behave very OO-like in many places. It should be easy to drag the search result directly to a diagram (without any button-wizardry) just like you do when dragging an element from the project view.

Title: Re: Copy found classes to the current diagram
Post by: RNE on September 21, 2005, 05:08:55 am

Clean-ness and uniformity or the EA design are very welcome.
On my side of the world, however, those are second after the usability. I need my team members to be able use the tool efficiently. That also includes keyboard navigation (hence the button idea, but Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V or something else might be fine as well).

Our experience with EA has been amazing - both the main usability, speed (except older/fixed CVS issues) and development (patches and fixes). I hope this issue gets resolved soon.