I really need to give yUML it’s own blog or news page or something :)
Until then, a few things that are new with yUML.
Class Diagram Direction Control
By default, class diagrams switch from horizontal layout to vertical if there are 4 or more classes in the diagram. If you don’t want this behavior, you can override it by tweaking the URL adding a dir:lr or dir:td, where td is Top Down and lr is Left Right. Example of use:
http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;dir:lr/class/[Customer]+1->*[Order], [Order]++1-items >*[LineItem], [Order]-0..1>[PaymentMethod], [PaymentMethod]^[Card], [PaymentMethod]^[Cash], [PaymentMethod]^[Cheque].Diagram Scaling
Sometimes you want a bigger or smaller diagram. yUML lets you do this if you add a scale:120 to the image URL (120 being the % size you want to scale). Here’s an example
http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;scale:200/class/[Customer]+1->*[Order]Another example is this:
http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;dir:lr;scale:75/class/[Customer]+1->*[Order], [Order]++1-items >*[LineItem], [Order]-0..1>[PaymentMethod], [PaymentMethod]^[Card], [PaymentMethod]^[Cash], [PaymentMethod]^[Cheque].Combining
You can combine these effects to make some interesting diagrams, here’s how you might bolt together an org chart.
http://yuml.me/diagram/plain;scale:200;dir:td/class/My Company{bg:green}->Research{bg:yellow}, My Company->Marketing{bg:lightblue}, My Company->Sales{bg:orange}, Sales-note:Outsourced to Blah inc
Enjoy!
