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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Add Unified Modeling Language (UML) symbols | ||||||
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| Product: | Draw | Reporter: | icanoop <icanoop> | ||||
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||
| Priority: | P4 | CC: | christian.lins, cno, hans, issues, lohmaier, magrawal, marius.andreiana, masaya.k, rainerbielefeld_ooo_qa, rb.henschel, stp, yoshimit | ||||
| Version: | 605 | Keywords: | oooqa, rfe_eval_ok, usability | ||||
| Target Milestone: | AOO Later | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||
| Issue Type: | FEATURE | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||
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Description
icanoop
2003-01-09 14:26:29 UTC
Set to new. Reassigned to Bettina. This would be an invaluable addition allowing me to throw away visio for ever. An ability to easily create my own symbols and exchange them through OOExtras would be a major boon for the Open Source community. OOo have the connectors and the shapes. I think this could be done in an easy way, because this needs no more functionality. Only some symbols in a toolbar. *** Issue 9945 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** from issue 9945 (submitted 2002/12/9 by machpeters@openoffice.org): I would like to add new types of arrow heads. Especially for creating UML diagrams. OpenOffice Draw is a splendid tool for drawing diagrams. But it is not easy to extend the arrow heads. I have tried to get familiar with loading my own .soe files, but I don't now how to create/format these kind of files. *** Issue 3618 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** from issue 3168 (submittet 2002/03/21 by gplymale@openoffice.org): I am very excited about the drawing engine of OpenOffice! It appears to be extremely powerful, but under utilized. It would easily compete with Visio if some time and work were devoted to it. I am actually looking for a tool to replace Visio for my current needs and was pleasantly suprised at the engine already in place. I've a couple ideas about this, although I am not able to work on the programming at this time. It would be very advantageous to seek to use "dia's" components that are already in place, such as the ER Diagram tools (Not sure if an integration such as that would be possible). With a small amount of work I think Open Office would be able to incorporate all of this functionality into itself, as well as offer advanced features such as generating code from the UML and ER diagrams. (It would also be nice to see such a feature as ER Diagram to UML converter to actually give graphical representation conversions. What a great tool! #### Additional Comments From Bettina Haberer 2002-03-25 Hello Falko, an issue for product management. #### ->that is the last comment to issue 3168 - nothing changed for a whole year! The key trick is knowing how to make shallow arrows. They must be made as an inside-out turned double loop. Making a double loop makes exclusive-or for the black fill color. It's really pity that shallow arrows are not provided in standard arrow selection. Some other observations: - It would be nice to be able to place text that hovers near connector's arrow heads. - Putting text along with connector lines is somewhat tricky. - Connecting a connector at a free location along an object border is too troublesome, as you have to add a new hotspot. Most problems are with aligning boxes exactly so that there wouldn't be any small corners in connectors. Availability of UML standard symbols needed. Sorry, there is no further ressource for adding further symbols. Perhaps you could add a new theme to the Gallery? Forgot to set it to the reporter. Please consider adding UML Business Extensions as described in "Business Modeling with UML: Business Patterns at Work. New York 2000." too. http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~noran/Docs/UMLvsIDEF.pdf Created attachment 18082 [details]
Workaround: ZIP with some UML arrows as suggested by magi42, containing 1. *.soe ('line ends') file and 2. Draw Document for copy/paste
*** Issue 7710 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Issue 7710 got closed as pre-approved issue. Please avoid closing issues with keyword rfe_eval_ok as duplicates. A must have ! This would be a great addition to OO and will certainly help the traditional Visio user migrate to OO. This is an essential addition for all UML users. By extension, unfilled arrow ends seems to be an essential feature not only for UML, but also for electronic and many other technical drawing. This seems like an obvious win for engineers trying to migrate from MS Office to OO. It would be sufficient if the UML shapes that Dia supports were available, but I'd like to see the class model view included as well. Visio offers a model view, and because of that, many different types of drawings can be made, like Sequence diagrams and static Structure diagrams. A framework for supporting these kinds of custom shapes seems invaluable, and extendable to more types engineering studies, like Electrical. *** Issue 40969 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** issue 33825 is related *** Issue 74127 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** *** Issue 32114 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** This would be a great addition to OO and will certainly help the traditional Visio user migrate to OO. This is the feature i will expect for years. I hope OO Draw have by default UML symbols soon. I think at the moment it is very difficult to add new shapes, but with the graphical layer improvements in ooo3 this should be much easier, so i expect it will take a while open source Dia project has very simple drawing of UML. If draw could just make the same shapes it'd be much better since it'd be in the draw application. thanks For me too: Drawing UML diagrams with the basic widgets would be a very nice feature. I love to see My Open Office competes with Ms Office VISIO . More votes anyone . PLEASE>>>> Vote by me, too. This would be a very nice feature of Draw! +1 +1 OpenOffice Draw really needs this! Long time waiting for this one... something that would be really useful to have. I think the job of the Ooo developers should not be to implement UML, but they should provide the required features for it. This means a simple way to create your own symbol lybrary and a simple way to share it, the same for table designs, and a features to add snappoints for lines (I dont know the word :-)), e.g. on each row and column of a table. I created a library of UML shapes for OO Draw. See http://www.lautman.net/mark/coo/index.html, and download the file for UML shapes. The endpoints of the connectors don't display well at magnification less than 250%, but they look fine in PDF. Comments are appreciated. @alkaatibu: It's a really nice file, but what if I want to resize e. g. a component? With your solution the icon will be resized, too - and maybee with a wrong aspect ratio. Internal symbols doesn't have this problems (if correctly implemented). I agree I need help, I have no idea how to integrate the zip into Open Office Draw to use it. I would really appreciate some instructions, sorry I'm newbie with this program. I need help, I have no idea how to integrate the zip into Open Office Draw to use it. I would really appreciate some instructions, sorry I'm newbie with this program. I have been waiting for this for years and still nothing. In the end I found another tool called UMLet [http://www.umlet.com/] that does a fantastic job and is very easy and quick to use, and it's free. I design my UML diagrams in UMLet, export it to a image and import that image into OOo. Sorry, but OOo is just taking too long to get UML support in OODraw. UMLet is a Java application and can even be used as an Eclipse IDE plug-in. Does OpenOffice support such type of Java plugins, then maybe UMLet can be used with OODraw, just like it does with Eclipse IDE? I have been waiting for this for years and still nothing. In the end I found another tool called UMLet [http://www.umlet.com/] that does a fantastic job and is very easy and quick to use, and it's free. I design my UML diagrams in UMLet, export it to a image and import that image into OOo. Sorry, but OOo is just taking too long to get UML support in OODraw. UMLet is a Java application and can even be used as an Eclipse IDE plug-in. Does OpenOffice support such type of Java plugins, then maybe UMLet can be used with OODraw, just like it does with Eclipse IDE? Why not simply use Eclipse to model UML? I don't believe that there will be an OO UML plugin anytime soon... Find some additional line ends in issue 14549. *** Issue 14549 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** |