[OT] UML Tools for developing Revolution projects

[Trevor DeVore]

On 8/1/03 Igor Couto wrote
>Also - what UML tools do you use? Most of the tools seem to be directed 
>at generating object-oriented code, rather than diagramming. They all 
>seem to be cluttered with programming features, and have *very* poor 
>interface and diagramming features. The only *reasonable* diagramming 
>tool I've found so far is OmniGraffle I have found, however, that UML 
>diagrams require a level of flexibility that OmniGraffle does not have 
>(ie, linking LINES of text inside one class to another is not 
>possible). For UML use, it ends up being *extremely* limited in 
>functionality. This means that updating the diagrams is taking FAR too 
>long - and then we end up abandoning them altogether, as they become 
>more of a chore than a helpful tool...

With OmniGraffle you can sort of link lines of text to another object using Magnets.  Click on the uml object you want to link the text form and add a magnet next to the line of text.  Then you can draw a line from that magnet point to another object.  I use this all of the time for digramming databases and showing connections between tables.

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com