Downloading and installing the TextUML Toolkit (RC2)

This tool is provided at no cost. You must agree to the End-User License Agreement before downloading. Please see also the instructions and requirements below.

Note that this is a development milestone and as such is a work in progress. It is made publicly available so users can try the software early and potentially identify issues that could then be fixed before release. Feedback in the form of feature requests or bug reports is more than welcome and should be posted to the forums.

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Version: Windows Linux/GTK/x86 Mac OS X/x86 Mac OS X/Power PC

Instructions

Download the complete TextUML Toolkit for your platform of choice (~51MB). You must read and agree to the End-user License Agreement first. This install contains the Eclipse IDE platform, the EMF and UML2 features and the TextUML Toolkit feature. Just expand the ZIP file to a location of your choice, and launch the textuml_toolkit executable. Make sure you read the "Requirements" section below.

Requirements

Java - the TextUML Toolkit requires Java 5 or newer (download Java).

  • Mac OS X users: you must use Java 5. The TextUML Toolkit won't run on a Java 6 VM (details).

Graphviz - the TextUML Toolkit requires the Graphviz tool in order to render class diagrams using the graphical notation. This imposes additional platform specific requirements:

  • all platforms: you must install Graphviz manually (some systems will already have it). If Graphviz "dot" program is on the system path, it will be automatically found. Otherwise, you must manually set the full location of the dot executable (Window > Preferences... > Graphviz > "Specify manually").
  • on some Windows systems, the Graphviz Windows binaries also require the Visual C++ Runtime package from Microsoft. If when you open a TextUML source file, a diagram is not rendered on the Image Viewer view (Window > Show view > Graphviz > Image Viewer), you need to download and install that package manually.