Question

Please provide a skinparam to center the text of the nodes in activity diagram.

The goal is to obtain something like this :

Instead of this :

Answer 1

With last beta: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

You can now have:

@startuml
skinparam defaultTextAlignment center
start
:foo
very very very very long text;
end
@enduml

This has not been highly tested, so feedback is welcome.

Comments

It seems to work like a charm on my diagrams, thanks!

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Note that this has been released in V8045

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This doesn't seem to work inside shape specific skinparams?

So this works:

skinparam defaultTextAlignment center

But this doesn't:

skinparam rectangle {
  defaultTextAlignment center
}

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note for future generations:

My understanding from the documentation on skinparam name { ... } scoping is that:

skinparam rectangle { 

  defaultTextAlignment center

}

Is the same as saying:

skinparam rectangledefaultTextAlignment center

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@plantuml:

• This works with "object" but not with "class"?
• On the other hand, object doesn't support "renaming":
  object foo as "Foo" {...}
  results in error

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@valexiev:

For 1/ Could you precise:

• This works with "object" but not with "class"?

For 2/:

 object doesn't support "renaming":

That is the opposite, as:

@startuml
object "Foo" as foo {
...
a = 42
}
@enduml

Enjoy,
Regards,
Th.