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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: skiwi on June 13, 2011, 09:26:15 am

Title: 9.0 whiteboard diagrams
Post by: skiwi on June 13, 2011, 09:26:15 am
Some initial feedback

How, yes how, do I get the name, alias, or notes appear in, or beside, the new shapes and arrows that are available?

Its great to have arrows that are not connectors, but how can we rotate them to an arbitrary direction, surely this could have been available from the start?

Can we connect the callout arrow to a shape, or rotate it to sides, top, etc?

How do we fill them?

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/WhiteboardDiagram.jpg)
Title: Re: 9.0 whiteboard diagrams
Post by: skiwi on June 13, 2011, 09:50:55 am
A partial answer. There are properties settings for shape (but not thin arrows ?!?) name and fill
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/CircleCircle1_2011-06-13_11-44-37.jpg)

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/test-EA_2011-06-13_11-54-54.jpg)
Title: Re: 9.0 whiteboard diagrams
Post by: skiwi on June 13, 2011, 01:42:57 pm
Feature requests

double headed arrows (please)
lines (no headed arrows)
ability to position text (left, centre, right; top middle, bottom) in shape text box
ability to justify text (left, centred, right, full)

ability to move shape text box (as you can with connector text box, including using cursor keys to move and resize)
ability to fill (background) of text box

Feature request made
Title: Re: 9.0 whiteboard diagrams
Post by: skiwi on April 20, 2012, 09:18:08 am
Also some rotatable braces/parenthesis/brackets

viz
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/2012-04-2010-59-00_Drawing1.png)

Note see also Ability to change text direction (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1330348789/3#3)
Title: Re: 9.0 whiteboard diagrams
Post by: skiwi on March 04, 2014, 02:24:25 pm
Can fill the background of a text box.

A circle, for example, does not honour the fill colour if it is a whiteboard diagram (see Diagram Properties), I guess that's by design!
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/EAExample-EnterpriseArchitect_2014-03-04_16-06-39_zps508343e4.png)

So, unlike on a whiteboard or hand drawn diagram where you have huge flexibility these diagrams are highly constrained
v11 - pretty much a big fat no
I guess that means no one else would find this useful.