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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Aggregation in requirement diagram

« on: November 24, 2009, 03:51:38 am »

I agree as well.

If it really breaks backwards compatibility to provide a good solution then at least this should be considered for the next major release (8.x), where customers might have to accept such a break.

History should not make us suffer for all eternity... :-/

Regards,
Matthias

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Active Directory / LDAP integration

« on: November 24, 2009, 03:37:50 am »

+1

Matthias

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo

« on: August 26, 2009, 01:22:09 am »

+1 !!!

It is not the first time this general idea comes up:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1249473871

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1241160674

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1245298266

I think I sent this also as Feature Request to Sparx as a consequence of one of the topics listed above.

Regards,
Matthias

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: set visibility per connector type

« on: August 06, 2009, 02:35:59 am »

Agreed, and often mentioned.

Please make a Feature Request to Sparx. You can use the link near the bottom of any forum page. Perhaps if more of us do so this will reach sufficient priority.

Done!

Regards,
Matthias

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: set visibility per connector type

« on: August 06, 2009, 02:30:38 am »

...just found this one, which seems related in a way:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1241160674

Regards,
Matthias

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Suggestions and Requests / set visibility per connector type

« on: August 05, 2009, 10:04:31 pm »

I am creating a class diagram to represent the inheritance of a larger class hierarchy. EA draws all relations, like inheritance, association, dependency, etc.

This makes the diagram diffcult to read. Since the focus of the diagram is inheritance, I would like to set all connectors of other types  to invisible.

Currently I have to modify each individual connector, which is inefficient and bothersome.

It would be nice to extend the diagram properties to define which kind of connector should be visible or not.
This would also allow to quickly switch between different "views" of the same diagram.

Thanks,
Matthias

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Suggestions and Requests / display namespace in object diagram

« on: August 04, 2009, 12:35:35 am »

Hi,

I have an object diagram with instances from different classes, with the classes having the same name, but being in different namesapces.
Eg. Car::Factory, Ship::Factory, Plane::Factory.

In my object diagram, the objects display the class name (i.e. Factory), but not the namespace, so in fact the exact classname (classifier) cannot be recognized using this diagram.

I verified "Tools/Diagram/General/Disable fully scoped object names" is not checked, and "Diagram Properties/Diagram/Show Namespaces" is checked.

So it seems that namespaces are displayed only in some diagram types like e.g. class diagrams.
I think the display of namespaces should be possible in more or less all kinds of diagrams.

(originally posted in General Board, see http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?action=addfav;fav=1248966552;start=0)

Thanks,
Matthias

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General Board / Modify comment style for code generation

« on: September 22, 2009, 11:50:42 pm »

Hi,

I am tweaking the code templates for source code generation to match our coding style guide. So far I am getting along but now I am stuck:
For the source code comments describing a function and its parameters I would like to use the JavaDoc style, but using only slashes instead of slash-asterisk combinations. Eg.

Now:

Code: [Select]

/**
 * some comments
 *
 * @param iVal      an important value
 */
What I would prefer:

Code: [Select]

///
/// some comments
///
/// @param iVal      an important value
///
Even better:

Code: [Select]

///////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// some comments
///
/// @param iVal      an important value
///////////////////////////////////////////////////

I searched help and the forum but I did not find an indication that this can be changed at all. Did I miss something?

By the way, we are using Version Control (private .eap, the package XMIs in SVN) and I am just wondering: The code templates are probably stored in the eap file and thus not included in version control, right? So I would need to backup the .eap file manually?

Regards,
Matthias

(EA 7.5 848 Professional)

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General Board / Re: Importing Source Code: abstract classes

« on: August 06, 2009, 10:38:17 pm »

...even worse, I just found that after setting the abstract checkbox manually, then doing a Code Sync, the abstraxct checkbox is cleared.

This means with C++ round trip engineering the abstract checkbox cannot be used.

Do I misunderstand something? An abstract class is a class that cannot be instantiated due to one or more pure virtual functions. Right?
Or is there a different understandig in context of EA / UML?

Thanks,
Matthias

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General Board / Importing Source Code: abstract classes

« on: August 05, 2009, 11:58:50 pm »

Hi,

currently we are evaluating EA 7.5 846 "Professional" Trial version.

After importing a larger C++ source code tree (which worked fine), I found that EA does not mark abstract classes. I have to manually set the check box "Abstract" in the properties dialog for each class.

With a large class hierarchy I need tool support to automatically mark a class as abstract.

Is this a limitation of EA's reverse engineering or did I miss something?

Thanks,
Matthias

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General Board / Re: How to display namespace in object diagram?

« on: August 04, 2009, 12:37:03 am »

Thanks, Geert, for confirming that it is not my fault  

I posted it to the "Suggestions and Requests" forum.

Regards,
Matthias

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General Board / Re: How to display namespace in object diagram?

« on: August 03, 2009, 11:29:09 pm »

...no answers yet  

Do I miss something obvious?

Thanks,
Matthias

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General Board / How to display namespace in object diagram?

« on: July 31, 2009, 01:09:11 am »

Hi,

I am new to EA; we are just evaluating several UML Tools and so far EA 7.5 looks pretty good. One question we could not solve yet, though:

I have an object diagram with instances from different classes, with the classes having the same name, but being in different namesapces.
Eg. Car::Factory, Ship::Factory, Plane::Factory.

In my object diagram, the objects display the class name (i.e. Factory), but not the namespace, so in fact the exact classname (classifier) cannot be recognized using this diagram.

I verified "Tools/Diagram/General/Disable fully scoped object names" is not checked, and "Diagram Properties/Diagram/Show Namespaces" is checked.

How can I get the name space of each object dispayed in my diagram?

Thanks,
Matthias

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Enum Tagged Value: default value not shown in

« on: August 26, 2009, 01:08:44 am »

... just for you   I checked with 848: identical behaviour.

Bug report will be filed in a minute.

Matthias

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Bugs and Issues / Enum Tagged Value: default value not shown in RTF

« on: August 25, 2009, 06:35:29 pm »

Hi,

I have created a new profile for Requirements, so I have some pre-defined Tagged Values present in all my Requirement elements.

One of the Tagged Values is an enum, having a default value.
Actually, I followed 99% of an example provided in the documentation.

When adding a new Requirement, this Tagged Value has the default value until some other value was manually assigned.

When creating the RTF report, no value is shown for this particular Tagged Value for all Requirements having still their default value.
After manually assigning a value - even the default value - the value is shown correctly in the RTF report.

It seems that internally the default value is not assigned, leading to having in fact an "empty" Tagged Value.
(EA 7.5 Prof. 847)

Regards,
Matthias