Anyone knows a good UML application?

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:18 am

Doesn't have to be overfeatured but would like it to be open source and free.

Code doesn't have to be generated

EDIT: To create a diagram for class, enum etc. of course
EDIT: original question/subject 'Anyone knows a good diagram application?'

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:18 am

what do you mean by diagram application ?
Something like Umbrello? http://uml.sourceforge.net/

random · Post by **random** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:40 am

http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/DiagramDesigner/ also free and simple

http://www.visual-paradigm.com/solution/freeumltool/ a little bit ore professional and free for non commercial use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UML_tools a comparsion...

anyway i personaly use the first from up above, it is just used to to make a raw plan, uml to code reraly sounds good but if you whant something like that you may want to use

http://www.radgametools.com/granny.html

but free is something else

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:45 am

serengeor wrote:what do you mean by diagram application ?
Something like Umbrello? http://uml.sourceforge.net/

It's what I am looking for although for Windows. Umbrella seems to be for Windows too but seeying the documentation (and dates) I don't think the Windows part is finished.

Also i don't see a download for Windows.

EDIT:
@random: Okay will check those out too

greenya · Post by **greenya** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:59 am

I use Dia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_(software).
There are versions for Linux and Windows.

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:01 am

random wrote:http://www.radgametools.com/granny.html

but free is something else

uhuh free is something else indeed. Didn't even bother to look at what version or whatever wich price has. Four figures where the first starts with a 6, nevermind.

Did give me an idea though, create one myself using Irrlicht

.

The others are not open source. On to the wiki list.

Thanks, serengeor too

REDDemon · Post by **REDDemon** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:25 am

it would nice something that creates some headers starting from a UML diagram. This will save lot of time when writing the same things (guards, constructor etc.).

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:35 am

Once I knew what I was looking for I found 'QM™ Graphical Modeling Tool'. Not open source though.

Still from all above I fancy Umbrella I think. But can't find out how to use it.

Can only find .tar.bz2 and/or .tar.gz for Dia (direct link), same as Umbrella. Am I missing something and can these be used by Windows?

Thanks greenya

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:43 am

REDDemon wrote:it would nice something that creates some headers starting from a UML diagram. This will save lot of time when writing the same things (guards, constructor etc.).

For this just create an empty template, and copy it just in the folder then rename and copy the (class/file)name and drag&drop it to your project. Open, double-click class name and hit CTRL+H hit tab type cNewName and hit 'replace all'. Well for MSVC, process of 3 to 4 secs.

Code: Select all

#ifndef cNothing_h
#define cNothing_h

class cNothing
{
  cNothing();
  virtual ~cNothing();
};

#endif // cNothing_h

REDDemon · Post by **REDDemon** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:23 am

i know that, i already doing something similiar with codeblocks shortcuts.

I mean that designing C++ classes is just a relational matter. A UML diagram can be translated to C++. Why i can't find tools that do that?

there are lots of advantages starting from a diagram (there are tools for generating diagrams from C++ for example). auto-inclusion of stricly needed headers, better general design in lesser time, auto assign namespaces without using "using namespace" directive (ex. irr::u32).

templates are not very flexible for example if you must mark for use a class of wich you need just the pointer in the header nad the right inlcude directive in the .cpp file.

Some other advantages can be smart code completion, if you change a name in the diagram, all names in the source files can be smartly changed. Drag n drop relation make immediatly generating source code corretly then you just need to fill.

Auto assign "const" attribute where needed (does this method modify..?)

make correct derivated classes (creates all virtual methods prototypes and definition, a good compiler will cut'em if not used or not filled with any code).

some questions can better come in your mind when designing throught diagrams instead of writing code.

EDIT:
Found it:

http://samparkh.com/dzine/index.html

also BOUML seems to be good

it does not have all the features i was looking for but seems to have lots of good features. I needed only to know the right key word for make a google search (I don't know that CASE stands for computer aided software engineering)

greenya · Post by **greenya** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:14 am

KP84 wrote:Can only find .tar.bz2 and/or .tar.gz for Dia (direct link), same as Umbrella. Am I missing something and can these be used by Windows?

Thanks greenya

Here you can get Windows version of Dia
http://dia-installer.de/

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:28 pm

I always use Visual Studio for UML modelling. Free for me since I use Visual Studio anyways

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:37 am

@REDDemon

Think also, prior to using it, using any diagram application will help visualize the architecture so you know what operations go where. Wich should be shared. When you need an additional class to be embed into several other classes. For larger projects you really need some help so the overview stays smaller.

Can't find the source Dzine though.

@greenya

Ah cool, thanks. Although I don't need a lot of features, Dia won't do it for me as I would like to have inherited prop/funcs.

@Sylence

Ah bummer, I need another version than Express.

KP84 · Post by **KP84** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:09 am

@greenya:

And Dia it has become

@All

Thanks

[edit]typo fix[/edit]

hayate · Post by **hayate** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:22 pm

I found these four:
OpenAmeos
ArgoUML
BoUML
StarUML

All of these seem very nice and offer c++ generator and c++ reverse engineering (from code to UML diagram)

I'm still testing them to choose one