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General Board / Re: back button

« on: July 29, 2008, 06:50:50 pm »

The problem is that there are plenty of users wanting the current behavior for back/forward and plenty wanting the browser like behavior.  We upset people either way.

If there are plenty of people wanting both features, it would be a good idea to provide both features. They are basic, frequently used, easy to do, and impact user friendliness.

(And although an option would be possible, then people still request the non-default way because they don't know that the option exists.)

If you follow this logic, the option window should be taken out entirely.
I understand it boils down to a matter of GUI design. EA should ask a GUI expert, this is not the first program having this issue.
Personal recommendations:
- copy the behaviour of the program most people are familiar with, it will be the behaviour they expect. The browser has a back button that backtracks and a shortcut for going to the previous tab. It als has a drop down meny to select a tab from a meny, if all tabs do not fit on the screen (which would be a welcome addition as well)
- provide different buttons (left (ALT LEFT) / right (ALT RIGHT); back (BACKSPACE) / forward

BTW: I submitted a "back button" change request as david sugested. I did get a confirmation mail i submitted "a change request", but not an issue identity or even the contents of the request I typed in the form => I have no way of referring to submitted change request in future discussions.

kind regards,

jan

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General Board / Re: back button

« on: July 28, 2008, 11:38:38 pm »

Thanks David, I submitted the feature request.
For the start page: does the home button on the diagram toolbar do what you want?

kind regards,

Jan

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General Board / Re: back button

« on: July 28, 2008, 10:17:01 pm »

The back functionality you describe is indeed what I am looking for.

But, the keyboard back button (or alt-left) do not take me to the diagram I came from. It takes me to the diagram to the left of the current diagram in the window tabs.

My diagrams contain quite some composite elements and hyperlinks (exactly using the techniques you suggest).
No when I'm explaining/working on a diagram, I often descend into a related diagram, using these links. Then I want to go back to the bigger picture (the diagram containing the link), just like you would do in a browser.
As you mention, you can have many diagrams open and it's always a hell of a search to find the "referring" diagram.

kind regards,

Jan

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General Board / back button

« on: July 28, 2008, 09:15:16 pm »

When browsing through my diagrams by following links (composite elements, diagram references, diagram links), is there a way to navigate back to the diagram I came from?

TIA,

Jan

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General Board / Re: How to make colours work for status ?

« on: August 16, 2005, 08:19:42 am »

This does what I want,
(though it's ot what it's meant for)

thanks, thomas,


jan

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General Board / Re: How to make colours work for status ?

« on: August 16, 2005, 05:55:05 am »

I was hoping to use this to highlight optional elements in my diagrams.
But have the impression that status colors do not show everywhere (e.g. stereotype images).
Is there another kind of graphical indication I can use to make optional elements (of various types) stand out?
Only thing I found up until now is to attach a constraint.

tia,

jan

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General Board / Re: Hiding package prefix on classes in sequence d

« on: August 12, 2005, 02:04:07 am »

I can't get package spec hiding to work.

Here's what i do:
I drop a class from the toolbox (or my resource view) on my composite structure diagram called "manage changes".
The class "stuff" gets created under the diagram and shows up on the diagram as "manage changes::stuff".

Now I could drag the class a level higher in the project view,
but it's anoying to do this for each element I create.

Tried unchecking "highlight foreign objects" on he diagram,
but the package identifier remains on the screen.

Help!

Jan

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Bugs and Issues / Auto tidy when drawing/moving

« on: January 06, 2009, 09:16:46 pm »

Auto tidy allows me to have horizontal/vertical connectors when moving them. It does however not work when drawing them nor when moving the source/target objects. So I'm always readjusting my connectors afterwards to have good looking diagrams.
I do not understand why EA does not always tidy my connectors when I have this option selected. Or am I doing something wrong?
(build 833)

jan