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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Welcome to Umbrello.</p>

<p>UML diagrams let you design and document object oriented software.  <a href="help:/umbrello">The Umbrello Handbook</a> is a good introduction to using UML.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Welcome to Umbrello 1.5.  New in this version are association classes, Ruby code generation, externalizable folders, ability to change interfaces into classes, and more.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Tabbed Diagrams and Externalized Folders are mutually exclusive. If you need External Folders then deselect &quot;Use tabbed diagrams&quot; in the General Settings.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Most diagram items can not be resized, they will resize themselves to fit to their contents.
Boxes, notes and sequence diagram messages can be resized, just click and drag on the red square.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>If you want to add an already existing class to a diagram just drag its entry from the tree view.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Umbrello's refactoring agent lets you move operations between a class and its derived and base 
classes.
Right click a class to open the refactoring agent.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Sequence diagram objects can have a destructor box and be drawn as actors.  Double click one for
the Properties dialogue.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Sequence diagram messages can act as constructors.  Click on the object box (rather than the vertical line) to make it a constructor.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Sequence diagrams support messages to self.  Click on the same vertical line again to create an automessage.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>If on loading a foreign file nothing is displayed in the list view, try saving the model under a different name,
closing, and reloading the saved file.  Usually the list view is then properly populated.
</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Cut and Copy will also export the image to a PNG clipboard which can be pasted into KWord
and other applications.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Associations do not have to be in straight lines, double clicking on one will create a movable point.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>You can turn on autosaving in the Configure Umbrello dialog.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Is a feature missing that you need in Umbrello? Please let us know. 
Either add it to the bugs database with Report Bug from the Help menu
or send it to the uml-devel mailing list.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://uml.sf.net/contact.php">http://uml.sf.net/contact.php</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>You can delete all selected objects by pressing Del or Backspace.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>If you've found a bug in Umbrello, please let us know. 
You can submit bugs with the Report Bug tool in the Help menu.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>Pressing the Escape key sets the current tool to the select tool.
Backspace jumps to the previously used tool.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>You can select all objects by pressing Ctrl-A.</p>
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<tip category="Umbrello">
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<p>You can create and setup a new class using the New Class Wizard in the Code menu.</p>
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