customize visuals on class shapes - DB reverse eng

[Haymaker84]

Hi everyone,

currently I'm doing some DB reverse engineering using EA Version No. 8.0.855.
And - lets say I have some minor problems regarding visual properties of my diagram...

After I connect to my Oracle DB, all tables are loaded into my workspace properly.
Even putting them into a new class diagram and connecting them works fine.

But I also want to customize the class nodes (as the tables are represented)
and I just don't find a way to do this.

1. background color
first of all, the nodes have some sort of shade in background,
which looks cool on display but blurres up my printings!
On top of this is it impossible to find a way to give bg colors to
seperate compartments - I'm trying to have only the top colored in which
the title of the corresponding db table is in.
The lower compartment containing the columns should stay plain white!

2. Ording of columns
The columns in the lower compartment are displayed in the same order as they
were created in the database. In my case i want them to be ordered alphabetically.
I only found a way to push a single column up and down - which gets pretty tedious
with 50+ tables with 25+ columns each...

3. column colors
the column names in my nodes are red... seriously wtf?
After I print this, you'll get eye-cancer trying to find a specific column...

I'm really confused about this handling, especially because importing the db-schema
and displaying them technically went so smooth... Great job on this!
But giving it the final cut is a burden in direct comparison!


regards from northern Germany,
hay