Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 24, 2007, 05:28:49 pm
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The glyph that appears in the top right of a compartmental (rectangular) view of an element is primarily used to denote the "type" of the element. Thus a Component has a different glyph to an Activity.
In other postings I have bemoaned the use of stereotypes to "fudge" the idea of a new type "Table" and "View" are my prime bete noirs at this point!
When EA decides to take the stereo type and create the glyph (such as with Table), it removes the stereotype from the list of (possibly multiple stereotypes). However, it retains it for the purposes of applying further rendering - such as fill etc.
If you're going to be wrong, then at least be consistently wrong! It's better than being inconsistently wrong - as at present! ::)
If you take away the stereotype from the list, then use the first visible stereotype to do the rendering.
Thoughts? Votes?
Paolo
(Why is it inconsistent? Well, if you see an element with stereotype «XXX». and you have a rendering for «XXX», it should render as an «XXX»!)