Compartment Lines in Classes

[bctm]

Dear Community,

if a class (or component) has methods and attributes, they get their own compartment - one for methods and one for attributes.

With the "feature visibility" feature (available via the context menu), I can disable the visibility of the attributes as well as the methods. Sadly, the compartments are still visible via the lines in the class - they do not disappear, even though the compartments are empty.

Please check the link below - the ClassA does not have any attributes or methods, while ClassB has both - the visibilty was disabled though.

Example: http://i57.tinypic.com/qn1v0l.png

Is it possible to hide the compartments, too? It would be great if there would be no difference between ClassA and ClassB as soon as I disable the visibility.

Thanks in advance.

[qwerty]

Choose Feature&Compartment Visibility and uncheck what you don't want to see.

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[Nizam Mohamed]

Which version of EA are you using, unchecking attributes / operations either in

• Feature & Compartment Visibility of the elements. or
• In diagram's properties -> Element Tab, disabling Attributes & Operations

removed all the compartments.

[Eve]

It was a relatively recent change to allow the compartment lines to be suppressed (actually to always suppress them if empty) I can't remember which version it was added to, but if you update¹ it shouldn't draw the lines.

¹ It's possible that you would need to update to v11.

[bctm]

Thanks Nizam! I'm using EA 8 and

• In diagram's properties -> Element Tab, disabling Attributes & Operations

did the job. Great ;- )

[bctm]

Aaaand I'm back again. This works for classes, since they always have the line directly after the class name.

But if you have something like a component, which doesn't have any line until attributes or operations are added, it does not work.

Example: http://de.tinypic.com/r/2e4yyqa/8

Even though all visibility checkboxes are disabled, it still shows the first compartment line.

[qwerty]

You probably need to update to V11 since there it works as expected.

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