Author Topic: connector's color in a profile ? (Read 8665 times)

moses · « **on:** September 04, 2005, 12:53:23 am »

Hi,
did any of you try setting the colour of a connector in an UML profile ?
We tried but no success - I wonder whether this is possible and how :-).

thanks, regards, Moses

Oliver Michalski · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2005, 01:52:17 am »

Hi Moses,

try this way:

1. Open the model where you defined your uml profiles
2. Select your connector and press the key F4
3. Select border color - Deselect Use Default Color
4. Change the color
5. Save Model as UML Profile

Oliver

moses · « **Reply #2 on:** September 05, 2005, 05:20:26 am »

it worked, thanks :-)

Paolo F Cantoni · « **Reply #3 on:** September 05, 2005, 07:01:35 am »

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Hi Moses,
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Oliver

Hi Oliver and Moses,
What you've described implies I can change the colour of a connector by applying a profiled stereotype, although I can't change its colour with an unprofiled stereotype.

Is that correct?

If so, can I do it post facto? That is, having assigned the stereotypes before creating a profile, if I add the profile the colours will magically change?

Questionigly,
Paolo

moses · « **Reply #4 on:** September 05, 2005, 07:13:45 am »

Hi Paolo,
In general, I think the stereotypes are updated from the profile, so I'd suppose this will happen for the connector, too.
But, bad news :-(. Apparently, the existing connectors won't take the color of the stereotype and the new connector you drag from the profile toolbox won't have the propper color set (default that is) - a problem elements had some time ago, hopefully this will be worked on too :-)
m.

thomaskilian · « **Reply #5 on:** September 05, 2005, 07:25:04 am »

Tried that, but synch does not offer any of the links. Maybe I'm doing something wrong

Probably not. I definitely have a link with an according stereotype, but it does not appear in the synch list. I'd call that a bug.

Oliver Michalski · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2005, 08:58:18 am »

Hi Paolo,
no it is not correct. You can change the color foreach stereotypes profiled or unprofiled. Select the Configuration Menu. Select UML - Stereotypes. Click the Button On the right side from the new window you have the possibilities for the color selection.

Kind regards from Berlin
Oliver

Oliver Michalski · « **Reply #7 on:** September 05, 2005, 09:19:00 am »

Hi Paolo,
oops i forgot the second answer.
No they don't change magically the color because the old stereotype and the new stereotype have two different Primary Keys in MS Access

Oliver

Paolo F Cantoni · « **Reply #8 on:** September 05, 2005, 11:50:51 am »

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Hi Paolo,
no it is not correct. You can change the color for each stereotypes profiled or unprofiled. Select the Configuration Menu. Select UML - Stereotypes. Click the Button On the right side from the new window you have the possibilities for the color selection.

Kind regards from Berlin
Oliver

Oliver, this never used to work for connectors (it does for shapes). and for me still doesn't.

Which version are you using?

Thomas, can you do it?

Paolo

thomaskilian · « **Reply #9 on:** September 05, 2005, 12:41:56 pm »

Doesn't work, although it looks as it should

. Never made use of that before, so I can't tell really

Oliver Michalski · « **Reply #10 on:** September 06, 2005, 01:26:12 am »

Hi Paolo,
Hi Thomas,

I had not tested this with connectoren

. It doesn't work for me too.

A view into the data base shows however, that EA has the changed configuration stored.
I think it is a bug.

Oliver

thomaskilian · « **Reply #11 on:** September 06, 2005, 02:45:57 am »

Has anyone the need for sending a bug report?

Oliver Michalski · « **Reply #12 on:** September 06, 2005, 03:09:10 am »

I have send a bug report

Oliver

thomaskilian · « **Reply #13 on:** September 06, 2005, 04:25:26 am »

Thanks, neighbour

Oliver Michalski · « **Reply #14 on:** September 13, 2005, 10:01:33 am »

Hi,

I have an answer from sparx support:

>>This is an issue that we are aware of and hopefully it will be fixed in a near future release of EA.<<

Oliver

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