Re: UML state diagrams

["Alejandro Aguilar Sierra" <asierra servidor unam mx>]

Christophe Ponsard wrote:

> Right and the icon is for a final state ;-)

As I told to Andrzej, you are talking about an older version of dia.

> I would also like to contribute here. About state machine a good start
> would be
> to define shapes for superstate, parallel decomposition, start and final
>  states,
> reuse the existing state (for backward compatibility),

Please have a look at a recent dia.

> transitions (with
> a property textfields for event [guard] / action

Currently you can do that using a message. Let's see which further things
are needed for a proper transition.

> There is also probably some work to do to get more complete support in -
> class diagrams (eg. nary relationships, associations classes)
> - activity diagrams (eg. subsystem, vertical fork/joins)

Again, see a recent dia.

> With more UML shape, the sheet could become a bit overcrowded and  it
> may become useful
> to split the sheet into several ones, redesign the interface to manage
> categories, a set of working sheets,
> etc... I wish I could prototype sth... As soon as I get some free time
> to have a try.

Agreed, that could be useful.

Regards.

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Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
asierra@servidor.unam.mx