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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Where is backfill color stored in EA?

« on: June 12, 2010, 08:06:24 am »

I have been asked to programmatically check our diagrams in an EA model to ensure all classes from one of six sub-packages have the same color in all diagrams in which they appear. I am stuck on figuring out how the background fill color is set. I am using the Repository.SQLQuery method to query EA in the vbscript code.

From what I can figure out: t_diagramobject.objectstyle (table.fieldname) has a string value where "BCol=" seems to set the background color if the t_object.backcolor is not set.

I have found t_object.backcolor can be -1 and t_diagramobject.objectstyle can be BCol=-1 at the same time.   I did not find anything in t_diagram.StyleEx that looks like a color code; hex or decimal.

So where is the color being inherited from?

Is there another programmatic way to get at the color of an diagram object?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Is there a way to enumerate diagram elements?

« on: May 18, 2010, 06:33:22 am »

Pardon my ignorance, but is there anyway to loop through the list of elements in a diagram?  We are validating our model with a VB script and want to make sure each class we create is in our Comprehensive Model Diagram and in the Sub-diagrams we have also created.

thanks