Hidden parents in non-Rectangular notation

[Paolo F Cantoni]

After a decade of using the product I've only just REALLY noticed that hidden parents disappear (by default) when you switch from rectangular to non-rectangular notation.
Is there any mechanism to show them in non-rectangular notation; should I want to?

TIA,
Paolo

[Helmut Ortmann]

Hi Paolo,

I didn't get it.

Helmut

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Sorry Helmut,

Which bit didn't you get?

Paolo

[qwerty]

I'm not sure whether Superstructures tells anything about it, but I was aware of that fact. Most of those strange things in EA were actually based on some UML specification. The easiest would be if one of the profound EA guys can comment on this.

q.

[Eve]

Is there a particular type of classifier with a non-rectangular notation you want to add it to?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Is there a particular type of classifier with a non-rectangular notation you want to add it to?

No Simon, it was just a general observation.

However, I WOULD like to be able to control the rendering of hidden parents via a shapescript and context menu item.
I think it would be neat if by default hidden parents were off for non-rectangular, and on for rectangular.  But then you could change it.

Paolo

[Eve]

I don't think you can recreate the hidden parents exactly as done for classes in a shape script.

However, it does support linked element shapes, which would allow you to define a compartment.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

I don't think you can recreate the hidden parents exactly as done for classes in a shape script.

However, it does support linked element shapes, which would allow you to define a compartment.

Yes, I've been meaning to get "into" compartments, but I've had "other fish to fry" to date.

One question I DO have, is: I presume from your response that you can have compartments in non-rectangular mode.  It wasn't clear to me from the documentation the this was the case.

Paolo