Size of sterotyped Port

[Uffe]

Hi all,


Let's say I create a profile with a stereotype <<Blarg>> which applies to Components.
Let's then say I create a non-stereotyped Component "System" and one <<Blarg>> Component "SomeComp".

If I now drop SomeComp onto System and select to create a Port, the Port gets given the <<Blarg>> stereotype. All good -- except the Port is absolutely huge.

Why is this?

I've tried creating a <<blarg>> Port stereotype, with a shape script which only draws a small box. The small box gets drawn, but the bounding box for my Port is still ginormous.

If I don't have the Component stereotype in a profile but simply punch in a string using the keyboard, the Port gets the same non-profile stereotype, and is the right size.

Anyone recognize this?
Any way to work around it?
I'm on 9.2.921.


Cheers,


/Uffe

[qwerty]

Sounds you are in a dark wood with mean animals around. I'm in another part of that wood. Maybe it helps if I start crying to expel the beasts?

(Sorry for my sarcasm)

q.

[Eve]

Sounds like your profile is being exported with sizes. Your port stereotype exists on the diagram without explicit size attributes so it exports with the size that it appears on the diagram.

[KP]

... and the explicit size attributes that Simon mentions are called _sizeX and _sizeY. For a port, they should both have their initial value set to 16.

[Uffe]

Thanks guys! Like a charm.  

For future reference, if you create a Component stereotype and a Port stereotype whose names differ only in the casing (eg «HTTP» for Components and «http» for Ports), EA gets it right.

Dropping an «HTTP» Component onto some other Component and selecting to create a Port will result in an «http» Port. Which, provided you've set the _sizeX and _sizeY attributes in the http stereotype, will be given the right size.

Cheers,


/Uffe