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kepNCI

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Page order in custom toolbox
« on: October 24, 2014, 07:23:54 am »
I save my toolbox profile via the diagram, not the package.  In the EA User Guide for "Create Toolbox Profiles" there is a note that states:

"Diagram, the Toolbox page sequence is determined by the Z-order of the Stereotype elements on the diagram - the higher the Z-order number of the Stereotype element, the further down the Toolbox its Toolbox page is placed"

Perhaps I am reading it incorrectly, but I think the order is exactly opposite to what the User Guide states.

In my diagram, when I click "Modify Element Z-order...", I see:
ZOrder    Name
1            PaggA
2            PageB
3            PageC

When the toolbox is generated, the order of the displayed pages is:

PageC
PageB
PageA

Is that not the opposite of what the user Guide states?

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Re: Page order in custom toolbox
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2014, 08:32:17 am »
Probably depends on from which side of the world you view the z-order  ;)

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Re: Page order in custom toolbox
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2014, 09:10:24 am »
Toolbox pages are added from the bottom of the Z-order to the top, i.e. from the back object to the front object. If you add objects to an empty diagram, the first one you add will be at the bottom of the Z-order, the last one will be at the top. The object at the top of the Z-order will be number 1 in the Modify Element Z-Order dialog. So it looks like the help text that you quoted is wrong, but have no fear, Roy will read this post and change the help file.
« Last Edit: October 24, 2014, 09:11:19 am by KP »
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Re: Page order in custom toolbox
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2014, 10:29:44 am »
And so it proved. The Help source has been corrected, and will see the light of day at the next major release.
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Re: Page order in custom toolbox
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2014, 12:37:13 am »
Thanks for the replies.

Helps keep some of my sanity.

Karl