Dia default visibility

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I have used dia for database mapping and when I was doing that I found having template objects that I copied instead of just creating a new object was the easiest way to get all the defaults the way I wanted on new objects.