I have the requirement of generating UML Diagrams for one of my C++ assignments. I’m using Visio 2007 and I’m having trouble representing C++ pointers. I’ve found a way to add a suffix to Datatypes however it’s rather time consuming to do this for every pointer used or returned in my program.
Basically I’m trying to get -object1 : Object* = NULL and +Object() : Object* without digging into the properties and adding * to the suffix field every time.
I’m pretty much stuck with Microsoft software for making diagrams and coding so please don’t suggest I use different software. However, if Visual Studio 2003 supports making UML Diagrams in a less painful way than Visio, I wouldn’t object to using Visual Studio but please tell me where that option is.
One solution is to create a custom datatype with Object* as the name but that would need to be done for every class.