The application of arrowheads is rather kludgy. It takes a double action to apply arrowheads, and these two combined actions are not adequately explained in the documentation.
Currently, to apply an arrowhead, one must select the type of arrowhead from a menu in the attributes palette, and then ALSO click a button to engage (enact? apply? encourage?) the arrowhead. This is counter intuitive.
A better solution (IMHO) is to have a single function, that being a menu from which you select the type of arrowhead desired. This menu would include a "None" option, thereby making the need to have a "switch" (which is really all that little arrow button is) to turn on or off arrows.
Furthermore, this would go far to remove the confusing arrowhead option when creating classes. Without knowing how arrowheads work, one assumes that ALL classes have arrowheads (because they appear to be active as an attribute in the class attribute creation dialog. In my solution, if the menu item of "None" is selected, then the small pop-out menus (that currently show an arrowhead, when there isn't one active) would have an "X" or something showing, so as to be visually certain that no arrowheads will be applied to the class.
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The application of arrowheads is rather kludgy. It takes a double action to apply arrowheads, and these two combined actions are not adequately explained in the documentation.
Currently, to apply an arrowhead, one must select the type of arrowhead from a menu in the attributes palette, and then ALSO click a button to engage (enact? apply? encourage?) the arrowhead. This is counter intuitive.
A better solution (IMHO) is to have a single function, that being a menu from which you select the type of arrowhead desired. This menu would include a "None" option, thereby making the need to have a "switch" (which is really all that little arrow button is) to turn on or off arrows.
Furthermore, this would go far to remove the confusing arrowhead option when creating classes. Without knowing how arrowheads work, one assumes that ALL classes have arrowheads (because they appear to be active as an attribute in the class attribute creation dialog. In my solution, if the menu item of "None" is selected, then the small pop-out menus (that currently show an arrowhead, when there isn't one active) would have an "X" or something showing, so as to be visually certain that no arrowheads will be applied to the class.
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