Azure Platform Icon Set

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Am I going senile or did I recently see a post asking about whether EA had (or was going to have) an Azure Platform Icon Set - similar to the AWS and GCP sets?

TIA,
Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

No, I can confirm. (or maybe we are going senile together)

But I can't find it quickly when I do a search.

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

No, I can confirm. (or maybe we are going senile together)

But I can't find it quickly when I do a search.

Geert

That's why I asked, I searched and couldn't find it either.

Paolo

[Uffe]

Well, define "recent", but I found two threads with OnT discussions.

https://www.sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,42290.msg254390.html
and
https://www.sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,43349.msg256897.html (last post a week ago)

But no official word beyond "it's being considered," which, well.

Anyway.

[Eve]

In my opinion there is sufficient demand for it.

Back when we released the support for the two icon sets we have I used a combination of scripting and manual processing to import their icons into EA. I hope support still knows where they can get the resulting XMI. It may now be outdated and isn't as polished as the officially supported variety but it should help.

PS. I suspect I didn't think the process I used would need to be reproduced and that I didn't document it in any meaningful way. From memory, a linux script to convert all of the svg files to png with a consistent size, drop each directory of files onto an EA diagram as artifacts. EA script to remove the extension from the resulting object names.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Well, define "recent", but I found two threads with OnT discussions.

https://www.sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,42290.msg254390.html
and
https://www.sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,43349.msg256897.html (last post a week ago)

But no official word beyond "it's being considered," which, well.

Anyway.

Turns out to be a "bug" in the search function (surprise, surprise).  Like you, I "knew" we'd had a post within the last week, so I set the search target to 99 days.  (Conserving electrons, my bit for global warming).  No "hit".  Extend to the default, 9999 days, many hits.

To me, that's a bug, .

When I search for posts, in a specific time frame, I'm searching for posts, not threads.  I suspect, that only the thread start date is used for the date filtering.

Roy and Eve, can you confirm or deny?

Paolo

PS: At least, Geert and I aren't going senile yet!!

[Paolo F Cantoni]

In my opinion, there is sufficient demand for it.

[SNIP]

How do we turn your opinion into a set of icons for us to use? 

I have some users "champing at the bit" to use Azure icons.

Paolo

[Eve]

In terms of the behavior of this forum I know no more than you. Apart from occasionally deleting spam I'm just a normal user.

For the azure icons the best thing you can do is send a request to support. I don't know how much it will take to tip it into being a development priority.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

In terms of the behavior of this forum, I know no more than you. Apart from occasionally deleting spam, I'm just a normal user.

For the azure icons, the best thing you can do is send a request to support. I don't know how much it will take to tip it into being a development priority.

Done!

Fellow users - as Eve suggests, if we don't ask, we won't get!  Put in your requests!

Paolo

[Sunshine]

I did the same as Eve back in 2019 and imported the Azure symbols into Sparx EA by dragging them into a diagram and running a script to fix the image names.
You can find the original model and the Azure Symbols MDG.xml file on GitHub.
https://github.com/EASunshine/Sparx-EA
Just treat the Azure Symbols MDG.xml file like any other MDG file. Put it in a folder and point Sparx EA to it. The Azure Symbols will then be available to use via alternative image mechanism.

Hope that does the trick for now.
 

[skiwi]

Fantastic - thanks for all the hard work to pull that together

[Eve]

For anyone who wants to use an updated set, or use a different resolution etc. Here is the (linux) command that I used to create pngs that can be dropped onto EA.

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find -name *.svg | sed -E "s/\.\/(.*)\/([^\/]*)\.svg/mkdir -p \"png\/\1\" \&\& inkscape -e \"png\/\1\/\2.png\" -D -w 64 \"\1\/\2.svg\"/" | bash
If you're wanting to add them into the image manager instead of a structured model of image artifacts you can skip the child directories.

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find -name *.svg | sed -E "s/\.\/(.*)\/([^\/]*)\.svg/inkscape -e \"png\/\2.png\" -D -w 64 \"\1\/\2.svg\"/" | bash

[Sunshine]

Fantastic - thanks for all the hard work to pull that together

You're welcome.
Karma points welcome too

[skiwi]

Karma points welcome too

Tell me about it

[Sunshine]

Karma points welcome too

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