On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:31:56PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:40:57AM -0700, Brian Rose wrote: > > What is wrong with dia? Is it not compatible to Rational? > > I hobble along with dia. While I can't comment on its compatibility > with Rational Rose, it does have some definite problems in the UML > template. Two that spring to mind (as of version 0.88.1-3, which > appears to be the current version in testing): > > - Connectors will only draw vertical arrowheads. It makes layout > of your diagrams significantly more challenging when you can only > attack arrows to the top and bottom edges of the boxes without it > looking awful.
Not true. If you middle-click on the connectors a menu pops up that lets
you add segments to the connectors. Depending on where you add the
segments, the arrowheads will be horizontal or vertical. Took me a while
to figure this out, though. It's definitely less than intuitive.
HTH,
Matijs.
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Matijs van Zuijlen
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