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General Board / what if file location has changed

« on: April 04, 2012, 07:11:11 am »

Hello Guys,

I have some more questions at the moment, sorry.
I am unable to relocate the file path of a class to new location since the whole diagram location has changed. The path of classes still points to the old location. This is from code generation task back then. The dialogs
- Synchronize with code...
- Generate code...
- Synchronize package contents...
- Import source directory...

they all don't let me specify the new file location. What can I do?

Thanks very much!

woodz

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General Board / Re: How to modelling C- #defines in UML?

« on: April 04, 2012, 04:57:42 am »

Hello,

you can type them into source code window (generate your code previously). EA will keep them while sync forward/backward.
Note that the idea of UML actually isn't dependent on any specific programming language.
Have you been thinking of tagged values? I am not familiar with them but they should be very powerful by aiming on code generation.

Greetings
woodz

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General Board / Breaking method into multiple lines

« on: April 04, 2012, 05:53:38 am »

Hello Guys,

is there a way to view a method as multi-line? Sometimes class boxes become very wide if a method holds more parameters.

Thanks

woodz

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General Board / Re: PDF Files

« on: April 04, 2012, 05:08:21 am »

Hello to lovely NZ,

I had the same question a few days ago and was posting it to EA support directly. Here is what they told me:

- how to link to a pdf document instead of to a *.rtf or *.htm?
Are you referring to document generation, linked internal documents or linking to external files?
The current version of Enterprise Architect supports generation of PDF documents (via the RTF generation dialog).  Linked Documents within the model can only be stored in RTF format.  You should be able to link to any external file via the Files tab on an element's Properties dialog.

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General Board / GUI model - include window API classes into model

« on: April 04, 2012, 04:37:58 am »

Dear Guys,

I wonder how to include a simple dialog class into my class model? Currently I believe I am having a so called PMI (platform independent model), later I will target to Java but that shouldn't matter.
I'd like to point to a simple file open dialog and model some basics like
- modality
- visible buttons
- icon type
- setting default path
- calling OpenFile method
- return result

Now if I would decide to use the FileDialog class of AWT tool kit, how to reference to that class? Does EA support something like pointing to a path where it can find such a class library (e.g. traverse *.jar files)?
Maybe later I'd like to reference components like trees and tables of Swing tool kit or any arbitrary GUI class to include them into my model.
Please don't tell me I have to build such classes by my own.

Thanks for helping

cheers
woodz

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General Board / Calss Diagram to Sequence Diagam

« on: January 10, 2006, 06:36:56 am »

Hello,

is there any automation support to build a sequence diagram from a class diagram in EA?
Maybe I can imagine the creation of the lifelines...


thanks

WOODZ

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General Board / more same elements in a diagram

« on: January 19, 2006, 08:36:40 am »

Hello,

to avoid a helterskelter of association lines in a class diagram i want to paste a class elemnt once defined as a box without showing the members. I can do this in two seperated diagrams by pasting the elemnt as link. But if I try doing this in the same diagam, EA prompts "...currently only one instance is supportet...".
How can I solve this?

thanks

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General Board / generate effectively an interface c#

« on: January 10, 2006, 10:41:09 am »

Hello,

which definitions (in the property dialog, in the tagged value window, etc...) are to be made to obtain an interface definition with the keyword "Interface" contained in the generated code?


thanks

WOODZ

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General Board / Code Comments versus behaviour

« on: December 20, 2005, 04:54:14 am »

Hello,

Default language: C#

if I create a class add methods and write a comment into the beahaviour property section of the Object Operations Dialog this text will appear in the code directly under the '{' of the method signature. Very fine.
But, if I reengineer a new class definition the comment isn't set as behaviour.
If I edit the comment in code of a previously forward engineered class the behaviour is also not updated after reengineeing it.

My goal is to reflect changes of comments / behaviours everywehre, independent of the location where the changes are done.

Can EA support this?

thanks

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General Board / Re: code engineering bug

« on: December 19, 2005, 12:41:32 pm »

Hello,

I've also made that experience.
I've solved it for me like this:

- do modifications on memberfunctions (names and parameters) or attribute renaming  in the IDE (e.g.VC 2003)
then reengineer the class(es)
- adding new members works as well as adding new classes, simple forward engineering should be adequate

I don't understand, why big IDEs like VC 2xxx .NET do not come with a fully intergatet UML 2.0 tool like EA?
How do the big developers, like sparx, softwareengineering? Forward/backward? I can't imagine.

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General Board / Re: Several namespace generation issues

« on: December 19, 2005, 12:18:34 pm »

Hi,

has anybody figured out that namespace dependency and nesting depends on the position (level) of the related class in the tree of the project viewer? I think, I've done it. I can drag the class to the node Logical View. And if I rename this node to the name of the namespace wanted, EA creates namespaces correctly. But it does not allow more existing nodes on the same level as e.g. the logical view node is. So we can not create new namespaces ad libitum.
I don't understand the base model of EA. It anticipates building new namespaces under the root (Views) directly.
I think it is not a good idea not to differentiate between packages (java) and namespaces (java + c#).
Isn't a package more than a namespace? Can't a package be a whole application and can't it considered as a komponent?
Why can't we create new namespaces via the project tree everywhere we like with a simple folder for each?

thanks

woodz

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Uml Process / how to copy and paste a whole sequence digram

« on: November 23, 2006, 02:31:55 pm »

Hello,

I want to know, how I can copy a whole sequence diagram within the messages (not only the lifelines)? Any idea?
Using EA 6.5.797

Thanks

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Uml Process / how to change font size for message labels in sd

« on: November 23, 2006, 11:36:11 am »

Hello,

can anyone tell me how i could change the font size for the message labels in a sequence diagram?
I use EA 6.5.797.

Thanks

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Uml Process / how to set enumertion base type?

« on: November 14, 2005, 01:29:41 am »

Hello,

in C# enumerations have got a base type. The default is int. But if I want to set it to byte, I don't know where to do it. In the Properties dialog I can't find any according field. I can reverse engineer the enum class. But it is not the sense of question of construction.


Thanks