Custom Action Pins (Solved)

[Hermelin]

Hi,

A new week with new questions!  

In a custom MDG I would like to define custom action input/output pins. Anyone know how to do that?

I have created a stereotypes that extends UML InputPin and OutputPin and I have a custom Flow that extends ObjectFlow. Now, how do I tell EA to create my custom pins instead of the standard when creating a new flow relationship?

Thank you for your help!

[qwerty]

Dont ask me for details (too long ago) but the Quick Linker should be able to do that for you. It's quite awkward to handle, though.

q.

[KP]

I think that's actually beyond the ability of custom quicklinker definitions. On dragging a quicklink between two activities, you can get it to create a pin at the target end, but not at the source end. Instead, you would probably need to look at an add-in that implements an EA_OnPostNewConnector broadcast handler.

[Hermelin]

Thanks for the tip. I will look into the addin-way then.

p.s The quicklinker do create pins at both ends... d.s.

[Hermelin]

I have tried to capture this with an addin, but I stumpled on how to get access to the newly created connection.

Too my addin I have added the:
public virtual bool EA_OnPostNewConnector(EA.Repository Repository, EA.EventProperties Info){}

The Info object should contain what I need: "Info Contains the following EventProperty objects for the new connector:      ConnectorID: A long value corresponding to Connector.ConnectorID"

But I can't figure out how to read that value from the info object.  I can't find any such value in debug mode either.

Even more, the EventProperty Class should according to Sparx contain a "Value" attribute, but this do not seems to be the case. In any case I can't access it.

Any advice?

// H.

Reference:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/automation_and_scripting/eventproperty.html
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/automation_and_scripting/broadcastpostnewconnector.html

[KP]

Here's some C#:

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       public bool EA_OnPostNewConnector(EA.Repository Repository, EA.EventProperties Info)
        {
            EA.EventProperty ep;

            for (int i = 0; i < Info.Count; i++)
            {
                ep = Info.Get(i);
                MessageBox.Show(ep.Name + "=" + ep.Value);
            }

            return true;
        }
For me, this put up a message box with "ConnectorID=32131".

[Hermelin]

Thank you very much KP!

My confusment steams from that the Value attribute isn't showing up in intellisense and that that Value contains an object rather than a Long, which I expected.

With int.Parse(ep.Value.ToString()) I finally got the ID.

// H