Stereotype in actor

[Marcelo Magalhães]

Dear friends,

     I'm trying to show the stereotype in actor symbol in a use case diagram. I create the actor and create the stereotype <<system>> to demonstrate with this actor is a external system in my model, but I need to show this steretype in the use case diagram. How to do this?

Thanks.
Marcelo Magalhães
Rio de Janeiro - R.J.

[Frank Horn]

Unless I've overlooked something, stereotypes for actors are only displayed in rectangle notation (context menu "Advanced - Use Rectangle Notation").

If you want the stick man with stereotype, all I can think of is a shape script like

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decoration version
{
   orientation="W";
   println("<<#stereotype#>>");
}

But don't ask me how make it look really good. Shape scripting is clumsy, inflexible and poorly documented.

[Nick Webb]

(Greetings all)

For actor with stereotype i use...

shape main {
      addsubshape("inbuiltglyph", 100, 100);
      addsubshape("labels", 100, 100);

      shape inbuiltglyph {
            h_align = "center";
            drawnativeshape();            
      }
      
      shape labels {
            h_align = "center";
            println("<<#stereotype#>>");
      }      
}

Hope this helps

Nick

[Nick Webb]

Playing with the above script a bit more, I see the stereotype overlays the namespace when visible.  Can anyone advise whether there is a simple way to avoid this when the inbuilt glyph is used?

Cheers, Nick