[Bluej-discuss] removing arrows

[Paul McCard]

I can't help feeling that most people would not miss the complete 
removal of "manual" manipulation of the arrows (both inheritance and 
dependecies/association).  We (at Sunderland) never use it, and would 
not want to even with the enhancements discussed.  Let the class diagram 
be purely a generated representation of the code rather than, in this 
one thorny respect, an editor - that would be much cleaner.

In particular, if students use the class diagram to create/remove class 
relationships thay are learning it in an entirely BlueJ-specific way.  
Surely we want them to do it in Java?

Paul.


Lon Levy wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>One further thought on removing arrows.  There was concern about deleting references in someone's e-mail.  Deleting would be a bad idea.  A better idea (not perfect, but I don't think perfect is going to happen) would be to comment out references of that type.  This is still clumsy, but at least the original work is not lost for those students who fail to back up adequately.  (In my class, one of the mantras is: there's no such thing as too many backups).
>
>Again, BlueJ is already a wonderful tool for my beginning students.  Small improvements are always appreciated.  Please don't try to become an Eclipse or NetBeans equivalent IDE.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lon.
>
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