TextUML Toolkit M3 test build is available!

A TextUML Toolkit M3 test build is now available from the download page. If no serious issues are found in this build, it will be declared the final M3 build later this week.

The focus for this milestone was to improve the performance, memory footprint and stability of the tool, and very good progress was made in those areas. But there are also some brand new features, mostly in the area of integration with existing UML models. You can now safely add existing UML2 UML models (built elsewhere) to the project root and they will become available to the textual notation. Another cool feature in this area is that you can now double-click any existing UML2 UML model and read it using the textual notation (think “UML decompiler”). See below the sample model from Getting Started with UML2 in both textual and graphical notations:

Would you like to take a look? Grab the M3 test build, and give it a try. Please report here any problems and leave your comments. As usual, your feedback is really appreciated.

UPDATE: If the diagrams don’t show and everything else seems to work, you probably need the Visual C++ Redistributable package from Microsoft. This is a limitation that seemed to be recently introduced with the Graphviz support on Windows and the Graphviz team is looking into this issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Rafael