Is it possible to put the text on the left side of the arrow?

Question

Hi,

I have a state diagram.

Example:

State1 -down->  State2: goes to

now I will get in the png-picture - pipe symbol meaning the down arrow:

state1 | goes to state2

Can I have

state1 goes to | state2

I have tried and searched but without success.

I do not mean notes. I know it is possible with notes.

Thank you in advance.

Best regrads,

Klaus

 

 

 

Answer 1

Unfortunatly, PlantUML is using Graphviz/Dot for that.

And I don't think that it is possible to change label position in edges.
(More info on http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html )

digraph G {
    a -> b [label="foo"]
}

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/img/IybCBqeio51mLwZcvL80WaG5NJk598NedCIar1nRfRJyVALONgvQ0000

If someone succeeds in changing the label with Graphviz/Dot, please post here.

Regards,

Arnaud

Comments

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4636023/677056

maybe you could add functionality to use headlabel/labeldistance/labelangle?

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Thanks for your idea.
Unfortunatly, labelangle does not apply to label, only to headlabel/taillabel.
( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2350617/how-to-place-edge-labels-on-edge-in-graphviz )

See here an example:

digraph G {
    a -> b [label="foo", headlabel = "1", labelangle=20]
    a -> c [label="foo", headlabel = "1", labelangle=-20]
}

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/png/IybCBqeio51mLwZcKW22H0LTEuKaXUYSnAJK75kbjFny9Hs5ZDJ45B20Wgs2aY5G0Cn9p4lFIRKrCeX5Q4mcGQCkI6Sj0000

A trick could indeed to use headlabel and to automatically compute a "labeldistance".
It's possible to do that on manual edited dot file, but on an generated file, that's another story.
So we are still looking for something here.

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according to this stackoverflow contribution http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18515529/graphviz-place-edge-label-on-the-other-side-ii

it seems possible to add this using the xlabel feature of current graphviz

essential parts copied from the reference:
Graphviz Graph with arrow-text-anchor changed

digraph {
forcelabels=true;

    0:sw -> 1:nw [ dir=forward, xlabel="  (1, 0)  "];
    0 -> 1 [dir=none];
    1:ne -> 0:se [ dir=backward, xlabel= "  (0, -1)  "];

}
you need graphviz version >2.29 to use xlabel.

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This would be great if it were possible (start using xlabel).

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could be a skin param ...