Thanks for the heads up, I’ll see if I can get round to evaluating Trace Modeler

@Dave

Thanks for stopping by, good to here you guys are on top of things!

Keep up the good work.

The shortcut key issue is one we know about ( http://jira.gliffy.com/browse/GLIFFY-475 ) and will be looking at for the next release. I’m using a Mac and the shortcuts don’t always work for me either.

I like your suggestion of doing diffs of the diagrams we store each revision of a diagram, and our soon-to-be-released third party API will let you get the JPG/PNG/SVG versions of any revision. Using this, you could do a visual diff.

Further, the API will allow access to our native XML format, so you could look at a text-based diff, as well (though I’m not sure how helpful that would be). The schema’s not documented right now, but it is on our roadmap, as a few people have wanted to be able to version control their Gliffy data.

Anyway, thanks again!

I read you’ve tried quite a few UML diagram editors but were disapointed. I’ve had the same experience, in particular when it came to sequence diagrams. A lot of tools are ok for class diagrams, but none are helpful to deal with sequence diagrams.

I was tired of messing around with the graphical layout and connectors, so I decided to write my own! Have you already tried Trace Modeler, an easy-to-use and smart UML sequence diagram editor?

It only does sequence diagrams, but it does them rather well . Basically it relieves you of the layout drudgery and allows you to focus on the actual content. Oh, and it’s cross-platform too.

Here’s a 30 sec demo if you’re in a hurry.

If you decide to give it a try, let me know what you think of it. I’m always glad to get feedback, especially from people who use sequence diagrams in a web context.

Best regards,
Yanic