Subversion and Image clipboard

[Guillaume]

Hi

I'm working on an EA project shared using SVN version control.
On a class diagram I pasted an image (clipboard).

Other users accessing the shared project cannot see the image.

I'm pretty sure that is due to the fact that the image data is only stored in my own EAP file and not shared via the XML files.
Is there any way to support of image clipboards in a shared environment? Or should this be logged as an enhancement request with Sparx? (I think the image could in this case be stored in a separate file on the SVN repository - the EA diagram would have a reference to this file to display the image)

Thanks

[«Midnight»]

See the post below.
I don't think you can transfer images via the Reference Data options. I have reported difficulties in this are to Sparx, but I do not know if they are working on a solution or not.

Perhaps you'd care to make a feature request - use the Feature Request line below the Support link near the bottom of any forum page - so that Sparx will know that somebody else is concerned about this.

[edit]But first check the documentation carefully, and inspect the Reference Data dialog. I misstated whether a category of reference data existed a while ago (it was not listed in the help), but I cannot remember if it was images. Whatever it was, I believe Sparx updated the help file to include the category, and perhaps the change came out in time for build 834. I don't have EA handy just now, so you'll have to check for yourself.[/edit]

[KP]

Images need to be exported as reference data: Tools > Export Reference Data, and select "Model Images" in the list. Then import into each EAP file as required...

[«Midnight»]

If you find yourself (and perhaps your team) reusing the same set of images, you could set them up in your 'seed' project. This way you would have the set of images handy each time you created a new project. [EA actually makes a copy of the seed project, so everything there ports over.]

There are two ways to go about this. You could edit - including importing the images you want - the EABase.EAP project that is installed with EA. This would cause the changes to be present each time you created a project through the New command.

You could also create one or more base projects - perhaps you have several standard configurations for different circumstances. Then on the EA Start page - the default page when you open EA - use the Copy a Base Project link (near the upper left) and point to the appropriate seed project.

HTH, David

[Guillaume]

Hi

I've used the reference data export/import which should do the trick.

Thanks