Beside LibreOffice Draw, is there a dedicated tool available in FatDog to create process flowcharts and UML diagrams?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified ... g_Language
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Software to create Process Flowcharts and UML Diagrams?
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Re: Software to create Process Flowcharts and UML Diagrams?
I can't say specifically about fatdog, as I don't use it, but there is Dia, which does flowcharts, don't know if it does UML diagrams. Dia is in the package repositories of most Linux distributions.
Ah, looks like it does do UML:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/Documentation
It's an old GTK2 app but useful, so most distros are keeping it, for example Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/dia
I've also got it in the EasyOS package repository.
It's a shame that some distros may be moving to drop gtk2, they will lose Dia.
Re: Software to create Process Flowcharts and UML Diagrams?
Thanks @BarryK. Will check out Dia.
I just found PlantUML, which also looks pretty cool, because you can simply write your disgrams in text format, which is then converted into a graphical diagram without having to manually arrange the object compositions:
It's open source, looks very well documented, but seems to require Java:
Do we have a guide to install Java in FatDog? Would that bloat the system a lot? Would be interested to hear your experience in this regard...
I also thought about using the Geany text editor but I don't think there are any UML extensions or plugins that could be integrated...
PlantUML seems to have an extension for the Eclipse IDE:
https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Has anyone worked with Eclipse in FatDog?
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Re: Software to create Process Flowcharts and UML Diagrams?
No, no guide. You can start the SFS Manager applet in Control Panel > System, scroll down the SFS manager window to the java-jdk entries, select one and download it. Then the manager will prompt you to load the SFS immediately and when the system boots. Your choice. With the java SFS loaded, you can run PlantUML from a command line like this, java -jar plantuml-1.2023.8.jar
Would that bloat the system a lot?
No.
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Re: Software to create Process Flowcharts and UML Diagrams?
To add to what step said:
1. "java -jar" command is included in ROX-Filer action. You can just double-click the .jar file from ROX window to launch it if you have java installed. (You can of course launch it from the command line too as step said).
2. In addition the Java SFS, we have Java installer. Open Control Panel -> Third Party Software Installer -> Get Java. It will download the latest version of Java, and build an SFS out of it, which you can then load.