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Suggestions and Requests / C++ virtual method shown in italic

« on: January 30, 2010, 01:38:13 am »

Hello

If for a C++-class a method is set to 'Virtual', this method is than shown in 'italic' in the class diagram.

This is surprising, because italic are commonly used for abstract classes or methods (and 'virtual' does not mean 'abstract', which in C++ would be 'pure virtual' -> '= 0').

See also the corresponding thread in "Bugs and Issues">"C++ virtual method shown italic?" (Jan 22nd, 2010, 11:06am).

I do also some teaching: for students/beginners it is quite confusing.


For that, I would suggest virtual-methods to show with normal letters, NOT ITALIC.


Thanks
Thomas

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Back/Forward, Navigation

« on: September 16, 2008, 07:05:54 pm »

I was searching for more than one hour (browsing manual, forum, etc.) for excately this feature and haven't found it  

Is it really possible that such navigation is still not supported?
Is there a specific reason for this?

Thanks in advance
Thomas

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General Board / Association with array in C++

« on: January 15, 2007, 07:19:34 am »

As I have a situation where an A-object has 0 to 7 B-objects ( A ---> 0..7 B ), I would like to build this with an attribute in class A which is an array of 7 pointers:  B *m_A[7]


How can I do this?

With the "Collection Classes"-dialog or "Member Type:" in the "Association Properties>Target Role" I'm not able to achieve this.

Thanks in advance for any hints
Thomas

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General Board / Re: Showing default parameters?

« on: January 15, 2007, 05:45:36 am »

Yes, thats right.

But for understanding and using a class diagram, the information of default parameter is quite helpful (maybe even more than attribute initial values). So I placed a 'request a feature' on the support page.

Thanks to all for your help and information
Thomas

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General Board / Re: Showing default parameters?

« on: January 10, 2007, 02:49:48 am »

I'm having the same problem.
Is this still a problem?
UML does define the notation Simon suggested, doesn't it?

Thomas

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Bugs and Issues / Re: C++ virtual method shown italic?

« on: January 24, 2010, 09:07:48 pm »

Hello Günther

You are right.
To be honest, I know about that only from various UML-books. I didn't consult the UML-Specs :-(
Because I have never seen or read something else I thought it was defined that way.
When I first saw this in EA I was a little confused.

Maybe this comes from the fact, that in Java the Operation-Dialog has only one difference: the virtual-checkbox (in C++) is there the abstract-checkbox (in Java).
So in Java the behaviour for this checkbox is as expected (sets the letters to italic).

I ask myself, if it would be worth to place a request for this in "Suggestions and Requests" because it seems to be misleading (as Geert noted).

Thomas

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Bugs and Issues / C++ virtual method shown italic?

« on: January 22, 2010, 09:06:01 pm »

Hello

Why is in C++ a virtual method in the classdiagramm shown in italic letters?

UML defines italic for abstract methods, which in C++ would be a "pure virtual method", e.g. "virtual void meth() = 0;".
(This is also done perfectly if I set the method to 'Pure').

Thanks for any hint
Thomas

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Bugs and Issues / Blinking Icon in Taskbar when switch with MDG-Link

« on: August 31, 2009, 07:44:04 pm »

Hello

I'm using MDG-Link and Eclipse (for Java).

While I use it on my notebook all works well: I select an element in EA and with "View Source Code ..." (F12 or CTRL-E) the focus changes to Eclipse and it comes to front.

But on an other installation with the same scenario, after the "View Source Code ..." the Eclipse-Icon in the Windows Taskbar begins to blink but nothing more happens. I have than to switch manually to Eclipse (either with ALT-Tab or with mouse-click on the Icon).

Has anybode else seen the same effect and maybe found a solution?

(Windows XP SP3, EA 7.5 and MDG-Link 2.0.
But: the same problem has already existed with EA 7.1 and MDG-Link 1.5).

Thanks for any help
Thomas

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Bugs and Issues / MDG Integration for Eclipse and Keyboard

« on: July 04, 2008, 04:15:25 am »

I have installed "MDG Integration for Eclipse 3.0" on Eclipse 3.4 with EA 7.1.830 and it works fine so far.

But if I want to add an attribute to a class inside of a classdiagram with context-menu>Attributes... , I would like to use just only the mouse-button and the keyboard with right-mouse+'b', as it works in EA: unfortunately this does not seem to work in the MDG Integration for me.

Is this a problem with just my installation/configuration or is this a 'normal' behavior?

Thanks in advance
Thomas

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Navigation from source code to model with MDG

« on: July 04, 2008, 03:32:55 am »

Is there a way to navigate from an element in the source code (lets say an attribute of a class) to the corresponding UML-model-element with MDG for Eclipse (Link or Integration)?

The other way works just perfect with "View Source Code...", F12 or CTRL+E.

Thanks in advance for any hints
Thomas

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG / Eclipse C++ Support

« on: July 04, 2008, 03:23:23 am »

Are there any new informations on that topic?
I would also be very happy to get this working  

Thomas