Shapescript Creation Tip: Over-sized Decorations

[William McKenzie]

The documentation says that decorations are drawn in a 16x16 square, and they are; but you can overflow that square. By specifying a rectangle of -200,0,100,300 you can triple the size of the decoration, and use an emf image to get a really nice picture. Like the decoration, this is absolutely sized, and will not scale with the rectangle. I found this particularly useful in a deployment diagram, as shown, where I will primarily use the location as a container for other objects. An enumerated tag lets my users easily identify classes of deployment locations that are relevant to our business.

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decoration location
{
      orientation="ne";
      
      if(hasproperty("rectanglenotation","0"))
      {
      }
      else
      {
            if (hastag("environment", "offshore"))
            {      
                  image("Chevron::Platform.emf",-200,0,100,300);
            }
            else if (hastag("environment", "datacenter"))
            {      
                  image("Chevron::Datacenter.emf",-200,0,100,300);
            }
            else
            {      
                  image("Chevron::Office.emf",-200,0,100,300);
            }
      }
}



~Bill

[William McKenzie]

Oops, meant to post this to Automation board. Maybe the moderator can move it?

[KP]

Oops, meant to post this to Automation board. Maybe the moderator can move it?

Too easy  8-)