Custom Properties Dialogue & Example Shape Scripts

[ecourt]

Hi, I am a newbie to EA and am trying to create a custom framework for business modelling.  I've follwoed the white paper on MDG technologies and created custom objects, diagrams and toolboxes - I'm now looking to do 2 things:

1. Customise the properties dialogue so when I double click on a stereotyped object (for example a "strategy" object which is a class stereotype), the properties dialogue that is shown is customised to add information about the staretgy (not the standard uml stuff).  Can anyone advise how to do this?

2. Customise the shapes - Inderstand I need to use shape scripts to do this and had a play with the examples in the help file but would like some nicer looking examples - can anyone share sopme of their scripts to get me started?

Thanks
Emma

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Emma (nice name - my mother's  

Define "nicer".

Also, you may care to use the [Search] button at top left (not the ones on the right) to search for "Shapescript" to see issues and some examples.

HTH,
Paolo

[beginner]

1. doesn't work at all. Never seen a customized properties window. I'd like to, but... There's a custom properties window. This might be customizable, but I don't know how.

b.

[ecourt]

To define "nicer" shapes I mean more than just a cloud, perhaps using curved edges to rectangle, or using an image in a subshape, having graduated shading etc.  I tried searching for example scripts but was really looking for a hadnful of compelte scripts I could adapt rather than trying to extract small sections from teh forum.