Bendpoints created by layout algorithm makes manual layout difficult

[philip-alldredge]

Issue by philip-alldredge
Tuesday Apr 10, 2018 at 16:26 GMT
Originally opened as osate/osate-ge#329

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The layout algorithm introduces bendpoints for connections which make manual layout more difficult. One option would be to add a context menu that will remove bendpoints from all the selected connections.

Consider an option to layout connections without bendpoints.

[paolo-crisafulli]

Hi Philip,
I see this issue has been delayed.
Just to let you know that my team and I are still very interested (some team members stick to osate 2.3.0 because of the too many bendpoints in later versions automatic layout).

[philip-alldredge]

Nothing has changed. We are still planning to look at this. I'll tag this for the next milestone but that doesn't necessarily mean it will make it into that release.

[paolo-crisafulli]

Got it, thank you for your answer.

[paolo-crisafulli]

For the record, the issue was created after this discussion:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/osate/I4pqPhrj-LY

[philip-alldredge]

This will be implemented by adding two new commands.

Layout->Remove Bendpoints - Will remove all bendpoints from the selected connections..
Edit->Select All Connections - Will select all connections in a diagram.

The combination of these two commands will make it easy to remove all bendpoints from all connections if the user wishes to do so.