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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on September 09, 2007, 10:37:09 pm

Title: Shape Scripts for UML Features
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on September 09, 2007, 10:37:09 pm

In a related topic ([size=13]Re: New Edge type: "Custom"[/size] (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1188974162)),  Sparxian Simon provides a shape script that can be applied to an Edge.

Ultimately, however, the modeller wants complete control over the rendering of the rest of the item.  Such as Features - Attributes and Operations.  At present there are almost no mechanisms to affect the rendering of Features.

Some products (such as Embarcadero ER/Studio) allow you to change the rendering of (in their case) Entity Attributes or Table/View Columns.  This is particularly useful when you wish to differentiate "cross-cut" features such as infrastructure or scaffolding etc from the domain related features.

We'd ask that consideration be given to embarking on this fairly soon.

Paolo

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Title: Re: Shape Scripts for UML Features
Post by: «Midnight» on September 10, 2007, 02:06:30 am

Votes += 1;

Could be a bit tricky, in that it would likely require (more than minimal) extension to the shape script language.

Still, well worth while. And given that scripts have now been around for over a year, now is the time.

David