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General Board / Re: relationships in diagrams

« on: November 27, 2007, 02:39:59 pm »

Cheers. Thanks everyone.

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General Board / Re: relationships in diagrams

« on: November 26, 2007, 05:48:55 pm »

Thanks for your reply. However if I have a number of views (say 10) and I add a relationship between A and B, I don't want to find all views that have these objects and hide the relationship if it doesn't suit. Is there a better way?

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General Board / relationships in diagrams

« on: November 26, 2007, 04:27:06 pm »

I've got one question which drives me crazy and hopefully someone can help me. I have a list of objects. I create a diagram (doesn't matter which one) and drag the objects onto the diagram as a simple link. I create relationships between them such as dependency. All is ok so far.

I create a second diagram and drag the same objects onto it to show another view. The existing relationships between the objects are automatically drawn for me. I have to hide the relationships because they don't suit the current diagram. I create more relationships for the new diagram and when I return to the first digram those new relationships are also drawn and I have to hide those too.

After 10 diagrams it becomes a mess. Is there an option not to auto draw relationships when I first drawn objects onto my diagram? Or should I be creating them as an instance of an object?

Thanks,
Darren.

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General Board / Re: associate connectors when reverse engineering

« on: August 09, 2005, 10:04:03 pm »

Well no it doesn't, I'm not running tests against the production model and interrupting other developers. Thanks for the help.

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General Board / Re: associate connectors when reverse engineering

« on: August 08, 2005, 04:54:33 pm »

Thanks for the replies. My next question is, if I change the connector types and update them to the appropriate type, will I lose this when I reverse engineer the source code again (using synchronize existing classes)? We are using EA as a modelling tool and update the model after each build rather than getting it to generate the source code, is this what most people do or is there a better way?

Thanks,
Darren.

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General Board / associate connectors when reverse engineering

« on: August 07, 2005, 11:18:12 pm »

I've reversed engineered a c# component and discovered it has used association where I would have used composition. For example if I have a class called Customer and it contained a class called Address as per the following code:

class Customer
{
   private Address address=new Address();
}

It has created an Association connector between the two pointing to the Address class.

Is it possible to tell it to use the Compose connector and have the coloured in diamond on the Customer side when reverse engineering?

I assume I'm correct here saying that when Customer is destroyed, so too is Address so using the compose connector would be correct.

Thanks,
Darren.

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General Board / Displaying icons in classes

« on: August 01, 2005, 09:03:53 pm »

Is there a way to display icons instead of + and - symbols to distinguish public and private elements in a class?

Also is it possible to separate public properties and public methods with a line in a class rather than them both appearing in the bottom section of the class box? I assume not because it is not UML-compliant.

Thanks,
Darren.