Override existing function in Add-Ins

[orientphoebus]

It seems Add-Ins are used to create your own new operations. How about overloading existing ones:

1. Existing menus operations: like in "Code Engineering" -> "Reset option for this package", I'd like to provide a dialog for user to input a new path for the classes' code generation filename.

2. Override existing language's reverse engineering. Like C#, I am satisified with most of the reverse engineering results, just want to make a little modification for the relationship between classes. I don't want to create a totally new reverse engineering process.

[thomaskilian]

You should move that to Suggestions/Requests since it's not possible so far. Would be nice to have (#1), though
For #2 see the discussions here in the past...

[Eve]

Just on #1, try having a look at the Local Paths feature of EA.  This does what you want.  Just set up the local path corresponding to the old path and apply.  Change the path and optionally expand.  Paths are changed.

[orientphoebus]

I know the "Local Path" approach for #1. It's fine as long as you did  not accidently "Clear Filenames" from the Code Generation menus.

I think it's really a little "odd" approach. First, people is not that easy to find this function; Second, it is not toatly doing what normally people want; Third, you must understand the concept and remember it, otherwise you will lose your correspondant files path for a whole bunch of files and the only way to get them back is set them one by one.


For #2, does anyone know the existing discussion about it? I tried to search with some word pattern, didn't find anything yet.

[thomaskilian]

Search for "roundtrip"