Bug 104366

Summary:	ability to limit association line angles
Product:	[Applications] umbrello	Reporter:	heikki.lehvaslaiho
Component:	general	Assignee:	Umbrello Development Group <umbrello-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description heikki.lehvaslaiho 2005-04-22 12:52:32 UTC

Version:           1.4 (using KDE 3.4.0, Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-7mdk)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8.1-20mdk

When I use Umbrello to prepare UML class diagrams I always end up spending excessively  long time to get association lines in straight angles. See: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lehvasla/omgsnp/

It would be of great help it would be possible to limit the association line angles to, say, 15 degrees. It think the most flexible way of doing this would be have this property set at the class diagram level - with an ability to override the setting within the individual association lines.

This would be an alternative to 'snap to grid' mode.

Thanks,
        -Heikki

Comment 1 Oliver Kellogg 2005-04-22 21:40:46 UTC

> This would be an alternative to 'snap to grid' mode. 

While you mention it: Creating straight lines is mainly
what snap-to-grid is meant to do, so if that doesn't work
for you let's fix it (?)

Comment 2 FiNeX 2009-08-08 21:42:22 UTC

@heikki: what do you think of snapping elements to the grid?

Comment 3 heikki.lehvaslaiho 2009-08-09 08:28:52 UTC

Snapping elements to grid works for associations, too.

I can not remember what was the problem at the time. It was a few years ago. :)