GUI

GUI
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Window Area Overview

If started in graphical mode, crystal_facet_uml shows a window with

toolbar on top,
drawing area in the center,
element configuration widgets to the right and
an optional notification bar at the bottom.

Tool Bar

Create/Use DB

Opens an existing database file or creates a new database file

Export

Exports all diagrams to the selected folder (supported formats are txt, png, pdf, ps and svg)

New Window

Opens another window on the same database.

Navigate

Navigate to parent or child diagrams
Create a new diagram (see the section called “Navigate”)

Edit

Modify elements in the diagram (see the section called “Edit”)

Create

Create elements in the diagram (see the section called “Create”)

Cut

Cut all pink-cornered elements to the clipboard (features of classifiers are cut independantly of their corner-colors)

Copy

Copy all pink-cornered elements to the clipboard (features of classifiers are copied independantly of their corner-colors)

Paste

Pastes diagrams and classifiers from the clipboard to the uml model. (Relationships are not pasted) If id and name are identical to an existing element, an instance of the existing element is pasted to the diagram. Otherwise a new element is created.

Delete

Deletes all pink-cornered elements. This operation may fail if marked elements have unmarked children.

Instantiate

Toggles the pink-cornered classifiers between classes and instances. (Does not work for relationships and features)

Highlight

Toggles the pink-cornered classifiers between yellow-marked, greyed-out and normal. (Does not work for relationships and features)

Reset Selection

Resets the pink-cornered selection

Undo

Un-does the last operation (Opening a database and exporting files cannot be undone)

Redo

Re-does the last un-done operation

About

Shows version, license and copyrights

Drawing Area

Diagrams are layouted automatically. You can influence the locations of classifiers only. When adding too many classifiers or relations, auto layouting may not achieve the expected results. In many cases, splitting the diagram into two or more diagrams solves the layouting issues and at the same time improves understandability by focusing on one aspect/topic per diagram.

Navigate

To navigate to parent, sibling or children diagrams, click on the show diagram.
To create a new diagram, click on the icon, or for a new child-diagram.
To restructure the diagram tree by shifting the current diagram up and the parent down, press F7.

Edit

To move classifiers within the diagram, 1.) press, 2.) drag and 3.) release the mouse button.
To select the diagram or a classifier or a feature or a relationship with yellow corners, click on this object.
To mark an element with pink corners, click on these objects twice.

Create

To create a classifier, click at an empty space in the diagram.
To create a child classifier, click into the white space of a classifier. (Alternatively, create a classifier and a containment relationship.)
To create a feature, click onto a classifier (name or border).
To create a relationship, press on the source classifier and drag it to the destination classifier.

Element Configuration Area

Edit the properties of the yellow-cornered object.

name of the focused object
stereotype/valuetype of the focused object (deactivated depending on object-type)
type of the focused object
description of the focused object

Maximum stringlengths

All strings (names, descriptions, stereotypes) have a maximum length. Ascii characters require one, most other characters two bytes. Current sizes in bytes are: Classifiers: