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Dia default visibility

Is there a way to set the default visibility for attributes and methods in the Dia-Editor? I find myself doing a lot of clicking to change the visibility of attributes to private. Setting the default visibility to private is also a more sane default as it forces you to adhere to the idea of encapsulation.

Solution

  • Download the source, edit the file objects/UML/umlattributes.c, in function UMLAttribute * uml_attribute_new(void) (around line 73), change the line 

    attr->visibility = UML_PUBLIC;

    to

    attr->visibility = UML_PRIVATE;

    Optionally, play around with other files and modify to your liking.

    Compile the modified source: How to compile Dia