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Suggestions and Requests / Re: TIP: Pseudo Feature Drag-and-Drop

« on: June 24, 2005, 01:04:02 am »

Alternatively you can drag an attribute or operation from a class in project view onto a class on your diagram, which does a copy. To do a move you can drag the attribute/operation from one class in project view to another class in project view.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Thank you Mr Sparx

« on: February 23, 2005, 07:59:25 am »

I concur. This is the reason I upgraded. Just happened to see it on another machine by chance.

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General Board / Highlight foreign objects

« on: August 03, 2005, 01:25:12 am »

On diagrams, is it possible to turn this option off by default (at present I have to do it per diagram) ?

Thanks

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General Board / Re: Start EA with a special diagram

« on: June 30, 2005, 12:59:08 am »

It is certainly easy using the automation interface to get EA to open and display a particular diagram. How you interface this with your particular requirements tool is of course a different matter.

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General Board / Re: Keyboard shortcuts to context menu items

« on: July 01, 2005, 01:33:15 am »

Ash,

Thanks a lot. That's an awful lot better than doing it through the context menu.

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General Board / Re: Keyboard shortcuts to context menu items

« on: June 30, 2005, 03:59:56 am »

Thomas,

Re customize/keyboard, I tried that before posting, but as far as I can see there's no way to access an option that's only present in a context menu.

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General Board / Keyboard shortcuts to context menu items

« on: June 30, 2005, 12:55:47 am »

Is the above possible ?

I have a bunch of connectors in a sequence diagram the source element of which needs to change. Presently I have to individually select each one of them, right click, go connection detail, and then set source and target.

It'd be nice if I could assign a keyboard shortcut to this function. It would also be nice if I could multiple select all the connectors I need to apply the operation to and do it in one go. As far as I can see that's not possible either.

Any suggestions ?

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General Board / Re: Source Code Control of a EA Project

« on: June 30, 2005, 01:02:59 am »

You can either back up your EAP file to source control periodically, or export the reference data (glossary, code templates, etc) separately to xml and then put that under source control.

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General Board / Pointer arguments and argument "Kind"

« on: May 04, 2005, 06:10:50 am »

I noticed that for some reason when entering an operation argument, if "Kind" is set to either "out" or "inout", the automatically generated "*" (C++) is only visible if you look at the element via the "Element Browser" window (View/Other Windows). If you use the "Project View" (as most people in my team do), the "*" is not visible.

We are using build 751.

I am pretty sure it's a bug but I post it here in case somebody knows better.

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General Board / Re: Unreserved checkouts

« on: March 18, 2005, 02:11:33 am »

Just to let folks know that the latest 750 build fixes the issue.

Thanks Sparx !!

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General Board / Re: Unreserved checkouts

« on: March 14, 2005, 01:42:40 am »

That's the whole point of a reserved checkout.

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General Board / Re: Unreserved checkouts

« on: March 10, 2005, 02:05:02 am »

Martin,

The problem is:

1) Developer 1 checks out a package (reserved) and makes some changes
2) Developer 2 attempts to check out same package. The dreaded "unreserved" checkout dialog pops up.
3) Developer 2 says No or cancels out of the checkout.
4) EA reimports last checked in version of package
destroying all changes Developer 1 had made.

I have an open call with suport and they are working on it. As a workaround we force people to answer yes to the unreserved checkout and then make sure one of the two developers does a check in before proceeding.

WRT your comments on EA/CC, up till I came across this issue we have been working fine with it. Don't find it that frustrating.

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General Board / Unreserved checkouts

« on: February 25, 2005, 05:33:42 am »

Hi forum,

We are using ClearCase in combination with EA. Have been working OK for a while. We share a common EAP file, divide the model up into packages that are put under source control. Separately we backup the EAP file twice a day to source control.

I noticed a problem recently that I can't remember happenig with previous versions of EA (using latest 748 build). If a developer has a package checked out and a second developer tries to check out the same package, ClearCase will pop up a dialog asking whether you want to do an unreserved checkout (up to here all normal). Unreserved checkouts allow two people to work on the same file in parallel. Both versions get merged eventually. While this works well with code, we don't allow it for EAP xmi files. Now here's the problem.

If one either answers No to the unreserved checkout dialog or cancels out of it, EA forces an import of the latest version of the package that was checked into the source control repository. The problem is that this behaviour undoes all the changes in the EAP file that the first developer made.

Is there a way to stop EA causing an import when cancelling out of that dialog ?

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General Board / Re: How to put the glossay items under sourcecontr

« on: March 01, 2005, 09:40:27 am »

You can use Tools/Export reference data and put the resulting xml file under source control.

HTH

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General Board / Documenting return values

« on: February 28, 2005, 07:23:49 am »

Hi,

Couldn't find anything in the forums on this.

Is there any way to document return values from operations in EA ? I am trying to generate some documentation from my model using the automation interface. The only way I can see of doing it is to include the return value information in the notes for the operation. However it'd be nicer if I could separate return values elsewhere so I could generate a table or similar formatting. How are people documenting return values ?