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jstonecash

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Feature Visibility Not Working ???
« on: August 25, 2005, 10:12:36 am »
I am a new registered user and I am using EA to help me prepare some design documentation for an existing VB.NET program.  I created a new project and imported the VB.NET source code for one of my library projects into the project.  I created a class diagram and dragged one of the classes onto the diagram.  All it shows me is a box with the class name and an empty compartment.  What I want is to see all of the atributes and the operations.  I am having problems getting that to happen.

I have navigated to the Set Feature Visibility dialog box, checked (on) every option that I could and clicked ok.  The display does change to show me the tag values but nothing else.  That is, no attributes even though the project explorer and the properties | Details | attributes all show the attributes that I expected.  I have shut down EA and restarted it.  I created a new project and repeated all of the above actions.  The effect (or rather the lack of effect) is the same.

The weird thing is that the sample application exhibits the desired behavor.  Changing the feature visibility works just as I expected it to.  

This is probably an operator error (I have been thrashing and trying out all sorts of things -- who knows what obscure option that I have tripped over).  But I also develop software for a living and know that  :-[ bugs do exist.  

Any thoughts on what I have done to deserve this and what I can do in the form of redemption to get my self back in the good graces of EA?   ???

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Re: Feature Visibility Not Working ???
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2005, 02:13:11 pm »
I am going to answer my own question.

There are two indicators that control whether an attribute or operation is displayed.  One is the Set Feature Visibility that affects a single element on the diagram.  There is a second set of indicators that is attached to the diagram and can be adjusted through the diagram properties dialog box.  Both have to be set for each of the visibility types (public, private, package, and protected) in order for the attribute or operation of that visibility to be visible.

Just like I thought: operator error!   ;D

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Re: Feature Visibility Not Working ???
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2005, 03:42:20 pm »
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I am going to answer my own question.
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Just like I thought: operator error!   ;D
It's actually a UI (Unique Interface) defect...

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