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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Pan windows with mouse drag

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:50:47 pm »

The behavior I was after was indeed similar to the way the 'Hand Tool' works in Adobe Reader. However, I find your implementation of this feature to be unreliable. It often happens that I get the 4-way arrow mouse cursor when I press the middle button, but then as soon as I drag, the cursor usually changes back to an arrow and the pan behavior does not work.  :-/

Could you give us the option to use a button other than the middle mouse button to pan drag with? I find using the scroll wheel for a drag operation is a pain, as the slightest wheel rotation will usually mess up the behavior being implemented with dragging.    Perhaps allow the use of a modifier key (e.g. ALT, SHIFT, or CTRL, or even no modifier key at all) along with left mouse button drag to implement the pan operation.

I think FreeMind, although designed to work with mind maps, has the ideal interface for diagram navigation and control regarding this feature. Check it out.  8-)

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Suggestions and Requests / Pan windows with mouse drag

« on: December 22, 2010, 12:54:59 am »

Could you give us the ability to pan the diagram windows (horizontally, vertically, and diagonally) with a mouse drag? E.g. Alt+Left Mouse Drag scrolls the window according to the direction of the mouse movement.

I know there is the Pan and Zoom window, but it would be much more convenient and faster if we could move around diagram windows by dragging in it directly, instead of having to move the mouse all the way over to this window, drag, and then move it back to modify the diagrams.   Also, it would be great if this feature worked inside Visual Studio with the diagram window open inside Visual Studio - no need to rely on having the Pan and Zoom window being open (and thus unavailable for use inside Visual Studio).

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Suggestions and Requests / Code Generation support for BlitzMax

« on: July 26, 2006, 06:44:30 am »

Would you add code generation support for the BlitzMax programming language?  

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Suggestions and Requests / Plans to implement Domain Specific Language tools?

« on: February 27, 2006, 11:10:42 am »

Does Sparx Systems have any plans to create software tools that would allow users to create graphical Domain Specific Languages (DSL's) via Domain Specific Modeling?

DSL's are considered to be more powerful than UML, and tools allowing users to create and to generate code from them are being released to market. Does Sparx Systems have any plans to produce such a tool?  

Some of the DSL tools on the market are rather expensive (just like a lot of the UML tools by other companies are expensive compared to Enterprise Architect), and I think if Sparx Systems were to come out with a DSL tool priced in the same range as Enterprise Architect, they would do very well.  

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Suggestions and Requests / Any chance you'll add a zoom panel for diagrams?

« on: July 13, 2005, 03:20:31 pm »

It is currently awkward navigating around large diagrams. A number of other UML-based applications (e.g. MagicDraw, Visual Paradigm) have a separate panel where you can move around a rectangle representing the current visible portion of a large model diagram, enabling  quick navigation to various parts of a large diagram. Another approach is to base the zoom function about the current location of the mouse pointer, or the middle of the currently selected model (or group of selected models).  

Do you have plans to implement such a feature any time soon?  

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Accessing link tab attributes in class properties

« on: July 26, 2006, 06:19:24 am »

I'm trying to create Code Templates for a language not supported by EA, namely BlitzMax.

I need to access the attributes in the Link tab of the Class properties window. How can I do this? The field substitution macros don't provide any access to these fields (e.g. Object name, connection type).