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General Board / How to duplicate Seq Diags w/o duplicating objects

« on: October 28, 2003, 12:22:26 pm »

How do I keep from creating a duplicate instance of all the objects on a sequence diagram when I duplicate that sequence diagram? I have tried both shallow and deep copying, and turned auto instance on and off, but I always end up with a duplicate instance.

I have a few objects with similar behavior, so it would be easiest to create a sequence diagram with a basic behavior, then copy it to the next behavior and make updates to the second diagram. Unfortunately, this results with duplicate instances of all the objects being created.

This results in a very cluttered model containing a bunch of objects with the same name appearing on only one sequence diagram. It would be better to have all of the sequence diagrams to refer to the same object.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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General Board / Re: How to get custom .wmf to appear on diag?

« on: March 04, 2002, 07:45:32 am »

Moving up to build 468 solved the problem. The revised icons work great!

Thanks

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General Board / Re: How to get custom .wmf to appear on diag?

« on: March 02, 2002, 09:36:28 am »

Here is what I did:
1) Searched thru my disk for a wmf file. found one named something like "Bd18181_.wmf". (I forgot the actual name)
2) Copied the file to "C:\discdrive.wmf"
3) Started EA with a copy of EABase.EAP, and clicked on Reference\Stereotypes... and entered:
  Stereotype   discdrive
  Applies to:    class (from pulldown)
  Metafile:      C:\discdrive.wmf (browsed to file)
clicked on save and close
4) I opened the Data Model diagram in EA (this behavior is the same with the Logical Model.
5) I clicked on a Class from the logical toolbar, and entered the following into the form:
  Name: DiscDrive
  Stereotype: discdrive (from the pulldown)
  Then clicked on OK.

The icon remained as a tan box with <<discdrive>> above the name.

If I were to name the class as being a controller, the icon will become an icon controller.

What am I doing wrong?

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General Board / How to get custom .wmf to appear on diag?

« on: March 01, 2002, 03:33:00 pm »

I've created a new stereotype associated with a class, and I added a custom .wmf to it. Now when I create a new class on a logical diagram with that stereotype, the class appears with the default tan box with the stereotype <<name>> above the class name.

How do I get the .wmf image to appear instead of the tan box?

Also, the help page shows the addition of a printer stereotype to an item called <all>.  Is <all> a special keyword? It does not cause the stereotype to appear in the pulldown list of the new class....