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General Board / Newbie question - multiple project use

« on: November 12, 2004, 06:53:30 am »

My source tree consists of multiple application and
library directories with the libraries shared by the
applications.  How does one use EA projects in this
case?

I'm thinking that each individual library and command
would be its own project.  How do I then get the
appropriate library model pages linked into the
command project?  My goal is to have library model
changes automatically appear in the related command
models.

Thanks in advance,
Jim VS

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General Board / relative pathnames for source?

« on: October 10, 2003, 06:10:53 am »

I'm trying to organize my source tree as follows:

                          toplevel
     cmd                   lib                 test
cmd1...cmdN      lib1...libN       test1...testN

Where C++ source resides in the leaf directories,
      cmd1...cmdN, lib1...libN, test1...testN

I would like diagram files to reside at the appropriate
points in the directory and I would like the entire
hierarchy to use relative pathnames.  The reason for
relative versus absolute is I want to be able to easily
relocate the tree.

I'm still an EA newbie and a bit clumsy with it.  My first
work had everything residing in a single directory.  Now
that I want to move to a more complex structure
I don't see how to move the source files.  I also can't
see how to use relative pathnames (., ./src, etc) for
the diagrams.

Any clues would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Jim VS

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General Board / Re: Requirement in package question

« on: October 03, 2003, 06:51:06 am »

Thanks!

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General Board / Requirement in package question

« on: October 03, 2003, 05:51:17 am »

I really like how the requirements look when added to a
package but have one small notation question.  When
one adds a requirement to a package the requirement
is displayed as:
  requirement icon on left
  plus sign
  requirement description

I'm wondering if the plus sign is a value indicator or
simply a delimiter between the icon and requirement
description string.

I've played with the requirement's status, difficulty, and
priority values to see if the plus sign changes.  (It
doesn't.)  Could someone enlighten me?

Jim VS

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General Board / class diagram note in code comments

« on: September 29, 2003, 02:42:24 pm »

I know the class diagram note is visible in the source
code comments.  I also want it to be visible in a class
compartment.  One way I tried to do this was to use
the requirements compartment but the requirements
don't seem to make their way out to the code.

So my question for y'all is, how can I have something
like a note compartment appear in both the individual
class rectangle and the source comments?

All hints and clues welcome.

Jim VS

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General Board / Using XML files with CVS

« on: September 17, 2003, 06:53:35 am »

I would like to put my EA models under CVS source
control.  The problem is the eap files are binary and
hence do not work well with CVS, which prefers text
files.  CVS would copy the entire .eap file upon each
checkin.

It seems like exporting the diagrams to XML and then
putting the XML files under CVS would be the way to
go.  I would have to ask developers to always import
from the XML file rather than working on their .eap files
in order to get the latest version.

My questions:
1. Is anyone else successfully doing this?
2. Is there a better way to integrate CVS with EA?
3. It seems like it would be best to export the entire
   view rather than individual diagrams as that would
   be the only way to retain the complete structure.

Any comments or answers would be welcome.

Jim VS