Anchor points for control flows

[Enrique Jorreto]

Hello.

I would like to make a suggestion on how to connect control/object flows between items in diagrams (this probably applies to other connections, but control flows are my use case so far).

When you draw a control flow between two actions in an activity diagram, they don't actually get connected to a specific point in the source and target actions. I.e.: The arrow doesn't end in the center of the side of the target action rectangle, or even if it ends there, if you slightly move the action rectangle, the arrow would not be in the center of the side anymore.

This makes it extremely time consuming having completely aligned items and their connecting arrows. I would expect being able to select a few items and arrows, and center them with the "align center" button (is there a shortcut for that?), the rectangles center but the arrows don't. 

I'm finding myself tweaking pixel by pixel a lot of connections to have everything properly aligned. Depending on the grid size and the elements size things just don't align easily.

Maybe I'm used to other apps that have "anchor points" in the elements, so you connect with the center of a side and the arrow stays there, and gets aligned when you "align center". I find this would increase the usability of StarUML.

Best regards.

- Enrique -

[StarUML]

Hi Enrique,

Thank you for your feedback. You issue has been posted on our main issue tracking system as a feature request.

Thank you,

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