Parts and Ports

[Mr. Sanders]

Hello,

when drag'n'drop classes to components you can define that the class is part, port or neither of them.

When you select Port or Part you have to give them a name
and the default proposal that EA gives is Port  or Part.

It would be very helpful if the name would be the same as the class I drop.

In most cases this is good enough.

In the way EA implements it, you always have to change that default, because Port and Part explains nothing in the diagram.

If I don't want to have it as a port or part,
I would expect that the dropped class is shown in the project explorer as a sub element of the component, but not as a copy, rather than as a reference to the original class.

Thus I would circumvent the port/part level, which we don't find necessary. It would be very nice, if the class references are directly shown below the component node in the project browser.

Michael