ArgoUML + Sketching

This project is an experiment with using pen-based gestures in a software design environment. It is a collaboration with Jason Robbins, and it is based on the observation that software environments build for desktop are not easy to use on a large screen interactive display, where the interaction mechanism is based on a pen instead of a mouse and keyboard

This project extends ArgoUML with gestures for (click on each to see a picture of how they should be entered).

• classes (in class diagram), users and usecases (in use case diagrams)
• deletion of one or more elements
• scroll of the current view up, down, right and left.

Other features that are helpful in front of a large display are laser-pointed associations :-) ,meaning that you can start an association and you only need to point it toward the target, without reaching all the way to it, and toolbar menu shown under the mouse pointer on click.

Download

You can run ArgoUML + Sketch using JavaWebStart here.

If you prefer to download the code, download all the *.jar files and startargo.bat file from here