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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2003, 04:49:25 pm »
Add my vote!
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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2003, 09:43:48 am »
And mine!

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #17 on: September 02, 2003, 06:41:18 am »
EA is a great tool but this would be a significant usability improvement - it's really the only thing that I get annoyed about it when using EA.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #18 on: November 10, 2003, 08:29:58 am »
As we have added more EA user's within our firm - this is one of the common complaints.  I am also beginning to manage complex enough projects where multiple open diagrams would be a big help.

Can someone from Sparx please respond with an ETA for this capability, or even of 'no way - can't do it' if that is the case?

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2003, 05:53:58 am »
Add my vote to.  The fact I can't close diagrams when I have finished viewing/editing is a pain.  Is anyone from Sparx gonna reply one way or the other?  This thread has been going nearly 6 months, how about an early Christmas present!

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2003, 01:33:20 am »
I'll throw my vote in as well!

My current workaround is to generate HTML documentation and use it to view the diagrams that I am not working on at the moment (great job with HTML docs, Sparx!).

Also, please make Ctrl+Tab cycle through diagram windows as well, and mimic the behavior of VS.NET so that Ctrl+Tab switches to the "next" diagram, and "release keys" + Ctrl+Tab switches *back* to the previous diagram.
Maybe not a perfect description, but I'm sure you get what I am after. Some packages always cycle "forward" with Ctrl+Tab and "backward" with Shift+Ctrl+Tab.

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2003, 04:29:44 am »
This would be a killer feature to add.  Please, please can we have it as soon as possible.  

I use the html output to get around this sometimes, but generally I resort to printing out diagrams and adding a few more piles to my desk.  Sometimes using Alt+left/right arrow can help - until I change the browse history!


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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2003, 03:11:10 pm »
I'm very new to EA and really like it, but MDI is realy missing!

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #23 on: November 26, 2003, 06:34:41 am »
As a consultant I use the tools that are availabe in the business I am in, but I will begin loading using other products when this is what is offered.  The inability to close diagrams makes this product an unacceptable piece of ....  I thaught we began using windows in the mid 1980's wow congrats a software company to set the industry back 20 years.  :-[  

Except for not being able to close diagrams and a few other querky things that are really not at industry standards. The product seems very good.  It is just not usable in its  current state.

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2003, 04:40:40 am »
'MDI style' as per (or even integrated into) VS.NET would be great - please add my vote.

In defence of EA I do remember the gods at Microsoft discouraging developers from using MDI not so long ago - hence the weird way that Office now implements MDI and VS.NET's tabs. I think the previous message was a bit unfair.

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2003, 02:39:53 pm »
Add my vote.  I just evaluated a bunch of products for my company and chose this one.  I’ve used Rose and Together for a couple of years(at other companies), but some of their features didn’t out way the cost difference.  We will have a lot of newbie’s to UML as we are trying to get everyone more OO aware and EA was one of the easiest I found to get up and running quickly and being productive.  Having the MDI and being a plug-in for VS.Net would make it a much better product.  I also have multiple copies of EA open to get my job done, please help.

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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2003, 01:28:27 pm »
Hi All,

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions.

Your votes have been counted ...

Diagram tabs will be available with the release of EA 4.0 due for release early February, 2004. This should allow for more convenient switching between diagrams.

Initially, only the tabbed view will be available- no cascaded/tiled views.

Regards,
Ben


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Re: Tabbed MDI Windows for Diagrams
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2003, 08:19:01 pm »
Thank you!!!!!
Frankly, I do not much care for the cascaded/tiled views, the tiled one is all I ask for!

Can't wait till February!