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Visibility of Private Operations in Seq Message
« on: April 12, 2006, 10:28:22 am »
I'm not sure whether this is a feature request or a bug (probably half-way between - which is why I've raised it here), but one missing feature of EA's sequence diagram modelling seems to be how it exposes the operations of an object being modelled on the diagram.

For example, if I send a message from component A to component B, and I've defined a bunch of private and public operations for component B, shouldn't EA only show me the public operations on the message dialog pull-down?  In the latest build it doesn't - it shows both public and private operations which seems wrong (and also makes the job harder if you're using private operations to model internal behaviour/functionality).

In the case of a self-message, I can see that this behaviour is reasonable, but IMO it isn't for messages that arrive from other objects on the sequence diagram because you wouldn't expect them to have visibility of the object's private methods.

Is there any chance of Sparx fixing this in a future release? (having an option to enable/disable this behaviour would be ideal).

Thanks,
Martin.