Showing constructors on class diagrams.

[rgsheehan]

Hello all,
It seems trivial, but I have apparently forgotten how to get EA to show constructor/destructors on class diagrams.  I actually have a model stub that shows them, but all my new classes do not, even though they show any other operations and attributes I create for the class.  So three questions:
1. How to get constructor displayed on class diagrams.
2. Why would EA not show them by default?
3. Where could I have found the answer to this in the so-called 'Help' documentation.


Thanks in advance.

R. G. Sheehan

[qwerty]

You can only show them if you have defined them as operation. To show the operations compartment check the diagram properties: Elements/Operations.

q.

[SomersetGraham]

Hi
There is an option the settings for code engineering that specifies if a constructor/destructor is generated when code for the class is generated.
Reverse engineering will the of course add the operations to you class

[rgsheehan]

SomersetGraham,

Yes, the approach you suggested works.  Thank you.  Not sure what Sparx is thinking here.  It sure seems to me to be a convoluted, roundabout, non-intuitive approach to what would arguably be a primary usage of the tool.

Anyway, thanks again.

R. G. Sheehan

[SomersetGraham]

Well the code generation only makes a default constructor which is not always what you want
You can define more constructors using the operations page