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General Board / Undo function

« on: May 10, 2005, 03:26:40 am »

If you remove a class feature (like an Attribute or Operation) how do you undo that removal? I'd kind of naively assumed that Ctrl+Backspace or \Edit\Undo would work but it appears that only undoes visual changes like the positioning or size of the class.

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General Board / Re: C++ source code formatting

« on: May 10, 2005, 03:39:48 am »

Ah ha! I made some progress. I think for now I have the solution.

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General Board / C++ source code formatting

« on: May 10, 2005, 03:30:21 am »

I've been looking at the code generation templates with a view to 'fixing' the formatting. In particular I want to remove the use of \t (does anyone really still like tab characters in source code? ) and also the flame-bait issue of '{' placement .

I've played with the templates a little bit but can't really make head nor tail of it.

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Uml Process / Re: How much will it take to master UML?

« on: June 07, 2005, 06:29:44 am »

I was on holiday last week and today is the first time I've looked at my UML in over seven days. I have to admit that I found it easier to read and get back into than I would have done code.

Not so much because I could read it at a glance (I can't) but because I can read enough and know that I can drill down if/when I have to.

It's also easier to rearrange the design elements because you don't have to undo work that you did previously.

So when I first posted I was tolerant of the idea of The UML but now I'm beginning to see definite advantages to it.

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Uml Process / Re: How much will it take to master UML?

« on: May 25, 2005, 02:55:56 am »

This is something I am trying to come to grips with. I can more or less read a UML diagram and I can create something that looks like a UML diagram but I have no idea if it's 'correct'.

The impression I'm getting is that 'correct' WRT to UML (both individual diagrams and the entire set of diagrams for a project) can be defined as 'conveys the same, useful, information to all who read it' rather than 'follows the syntax of the language'.

From my current experience (only a few weeks really) UML is helping me think about the design but only in the same way I would have done in code.

I effectively work alone. There is a team but no one I need to communicate ideas to. Normally I'd start by writing class declarations and some simple code. When the code is in danger of getting complicated I call and declare (but not implement) a method or function.

ISTM that UML is allowing me to move that process into a diagram. I can't say it's giving me a huge productivity boost though. All I'd currently say is that at the end of the process I will have better documentation for an outside to look at. Not that that's a bad thing but I don't currently get the feeling that UML is giving me personally anything I didn't already have.