Lateral Horizontal/Vertical connector style

[Knaldgas]

I have to be fair - I've just tested Lateral line style in 12.1 (1224), and here it appears to work.
Some of my customers refuse to upgrade beyond 11, so I have work with that...

Well, I'll just have to tell them to upgrade, again, I suppose.

[Geert Bellekens]

Tell them v11 to EA what "Millenium" was to Windows.
That's how I see it anyway.
I have never upgraded to client to v11 because of a number of bugs/annoyances.
V10 was OK, and v12 is OK again too.

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Maybe because it was developed on the opposite side of the world?

Geert

NO!  You guys are on the opposite side! 

Haven't you seen those maps where Australia is at the top?

Happy bisextus everybody!

Paolo

[RoyC]

Reminds me of the joke: Fred was walking beside the river when he saw Dopey Joe on the opposite bank. "Hey, Mate!" Fred shouted "Is there a way I can get to the other side?" Joe shouted back "Whadya mean? You ARE on the other side!".

[Glassboy]

NO!  You guys are on the opposite side! 

Nice try Paolo, but you know what Podeans are "willfully ignorant"*.  Not only do they refuse to see that "North" is actually galactically down, but they all live in the past.  (Mind you so do you.)


*Fancy legal term

[skiwi]

Hi KP

So a Lateral Horizontal association dragged from Class1 to Class2 should result in a horizontal line toward Class2...
Right, could you do me a favor and get this project: http://knaldgas.dk/~pdj/YAEAB.eap 1.2MB, drag an association from Class1 to Class2, and set it to "Lateral Horizontal".

Looking forward to your response...

Note one diagram quirk: the directed association arrow heads to Class2 and Class4 "disappear" when the directed associations to class2b or class4a overlap them. _{(EA 12.1.1224)}

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Skiwi,

I've also noticed anomalies when the lines overlap - bug reported.  In my case it was the additional decoration I place on the line that went screwy, but I can see that the same anomalous code might have the effect you're seeing.

Paolo

[qwerty]

The above rendering is buggy for sure. But placing the elements in those positions is a user error in the same range.

q.

[skiwi]

I updated the image in an attempt to illustrate what is happening.
In the image above the size and colour of the connector to an entity is exactly the same as the size and colour of the entity's edge.

[Marc Vanstraelen]

Resurrecting this thread from last year, because I'd like to add a finding to the discussion.

We upgraded from EA10 to EA12.1, and we just found out that both versions show the line styles "Lateral - Vertical" and "Lateral - Horizontal" differently in some situations, and the same in some others. I did some tests in an Activity Diagram and found:

In EA12.1 the behaviour seems to be consistently:

• Lateral - Vertical: Source --> horizontal --> vertical --> target
• Lateral - Horizontal: Source --> vertical --> horizontal --> target

In EA10 however, it is like this for the connectors going into an activity from a common node, but the reverse for a connector coming out of an activity to a common node.

Some of our users are not quite so happy that their diagrams look worse after the upgrade.
I recommended, as Geert did, that they avoid the Lateral styles and go with the Orthogonal instead.