Re: Order of methods in class diagrams (revisited)

On 4/5/2007, "Michiel van der Wulp" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Mario,
>
>If you select the class, and then in the properties panel at the bottom,
>right-click on the attributes or operations field, you will see a pop-up
>menu with "move up" and "move down".

Ah, thanks!

>Admittingly, finding this pop-up is not so obvious.
>There are already the following issus entered in our PT to improve the
>situation:
>http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3242
>http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4448
>...but is unclear to me how to make this rally user-friendly. Feel free to
>add any tips to the issues, or vote for them!

Thanks for pointing these out. I voted for the drag'n'drop solution (in
both diagram and explorer tree) as this seems to me the most natural,
and is what I had actually tried to do first.

My alternative suggestion would be to right-click on an attribute or
method, and then select Ordering > Move Up | Move Down ... except that
if I right-click on an attribute in a class diagram, the selection
(unexpectedly) switches to the class, and then a context menu for the
class is displayed. This is confusing -- the tool supports a details
view for an attribute, so presumably a context-menu for an attribute
should also make sense. Maybe there is a particular reason for not
having this?

Thanks... mario