Shape Script Manual

[fwoolz]

All,

The EA User Manual has sketchy info, at best, on the Shape Script language. Do Sparx plan on issuing a comprehensive manual detailing all commands, etc?

Cheers,

[«Midnight»]

I've been after them about this for some time. Try searching the forum for what we've all learned. [Hint: use "documentation" rather than "manual" since that's the term that's generally used in posts.]

I am hoping that the production documentation for EA 6.5 will be updated. As of beta 1 this is not so.

[Eve]

There has been some work done on this and it should definately be included in the final release of 6.5.

[fwoolz]

Good to hear...

An additional bit regarding Shape Script, EA profiles and MDG Add-Ins:

While poking around the BPMN add-in DLL, I discovered that images associated with stereotypes may be defined in a profile as:

Image type="EAShapeScript 1.0"

The script file, however, is not included as text but as base64 encoded binary data, with a data type defined as:

dt:dt="bin.base64"

Is there anything special that needs to be done to include a text Shape Script in a profile aside from encoding it as base64 binary? Will Sparx include the ability to attach a Shape Script file to a profile stereotype in a straightforward manner that doesn't require hacking the profile .xml file?

Cheers,

[KP]

Is there anything special that needs to be done to include a text Shape Script in a profile aside from encoding it as base64 binary? Will Sparx include the ability to attach a Shape Script file to a profile stereotype in a straightforward manner that doesn't require hacking the profile .xml file?

Build your profile as normal, give your <<stereotype>> class an attribute called _image and click the "..." button next to the Initial Value field to enter your shape script. No XML hacking necessary

[fwoolz]

Bloody brilliant!

DUH...