Version: 1.1.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1.2) Installed from: Unspecified Linux OS: Linux It's useful to make multiline labels for any element of the diagram. Now the label must be arranged in a single line (except comments), and the drawn elements may be too wide in compare to their height. The problem is very essential for Russian, because the words and phrases in this language are longer than in English.
Are you talking about just the "Line of Text" widgets or other widgets as well? Multiline on Line of Text would make sence, I think it would look more confusing for other widgets.
Subject: Re: Multiline labels make drawings more compact > Are you talking about just the "Line of Text" widgets or other widgets as > well? It's attractable for almost any widget > Multiline on Line of Text would make sence, I think it would look more > confusing for other widgets. I have been actively use this feature in MS Visio at my work. I do not confuse, when I may write the name of a class, activity, use case or control flow path. I think you'll see, I use UML not for the programming but for the business (object domain) modeling. This area is much more informal, and requires natural language labels to be clear for the people, who are not programmers. For example, I may define a class with a name 'Informal Registered Document (strong blank)' to denote the according conception. Other examples, just from my last project: - activity step: 'User enters login and password' - condition: 'User have confirmed the entered data' - use case: 'Printing of informal registered documents' For the same reason I like to use different informal icons on the diagrams. For example, I use actor icon (simplified human figure) to note user actions, data icon (short cylinder) to note server actions, computer icon to note client program actions etc. Is it possible to include the feature in umbrello? Unfortunately, MS Visio is also inconsistent for this issue. It allows direct editing of the labels almost everywhere except use cases. However, when you would see properties of a widget, you will see empty squares inside of the single-line label. These squares denote 'carriage return' characters. You may copy any square character and paste it in any place. In such hacking way you may make a multiline label in any place. I tried to go in the same way for umbrello: insert 'new line' escape ('\n') in labels, but it is shown merely as \n, not as a new line. Thank you for the personal attention. May I subscribe more notes to you via e-mail? My Internet connection is a little expensive for me to use official bug tracking system
Subject: Re: [Uml-devel] Multiline labels make drawings more compact Eugine V. Kosenko <eugine_kosenko@ukr.net> [031102 17:24]: > Thank you for the personal attention. May I subscribe more notes to you via > e-mail? My Internet connection is a little expensive for me to use official > bug tracking system This notes are added to the bug tracking system. Everytime you answer to this request (the email with the bug number in it), the information you provide will be added to the bug report. On the other side, you can also subscribe to the uml-user list, it is low traffic and the right place for other requests. Please see the homepage for instructions. Steinchen
For me it was a big surprise to notice that Umbrello does not support multiline labels. Especially since all the other UML modellers I have tried support them. > Multiline on Line of Text would make sence, I think it would look more > confusing for other widgets. I do not see why. I admit that I do not know the general UML guidelines about this issue but I have seen many use case and activity diagrams (for example) with multiline labels and they are perfectly understandable to me. My main point is: multiline labels make diagrams more compact and readable.
I just fixed this for use cases (see bug 424863). It should be included in the next release. What other label items suffer from this lack of word-wrapping?