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General Board / Re: Am I the only one who hates the template edito

« on: October 26, 2006, 10:49:47 am »

The RTF template editor is painful.  I've lost hours of work when templates stop working for no reason. E.g. starting with a template, modifying it, saving a copy under a different name and getting different output.  The cut/paste when tags are selected is broken/inconsistent.  The outline in the left hand side does not offer the flexibility we require. The RTF editor sucks (but thats a different rant). Random elements can't be included by the template editor (e.g. the matrix views). We've had to hire a consultant to get documents out of the jet database directly because the RTF generation provided with EA is so bad. This will cost much much more than the actual cost of EA, and we probably would have been better off just using another tool from the start.

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General Board / methods in sequence diagrams

« on: October 16, 2006, 08:28:48 am »

How does everyone check that sequence diagrams messages are consistent? I'm in a situation where I've got a lot of classes and a lot of sequence diagrams and I want to make sure that every message in the sequence diagram is declared in the target of the message, and that every method in every class appears in a sequence diagram. Any sugguestions?

Also, if any of the developers are reading this, could you make the operations button in the message properties dialog box automatically select the message of the same name in the method editing page? Thanks - Ethan

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General Board / Suppressing an element in RTF reports

« on: September 28, 2006, 08:16:05 am »

Is there a way to set an individual element to not be generated in RTF reports?

I'm currently creating subpackages called private and setting 'RTF Report Options' and selecting 'Exclude Package from RTF Reports' which creates lots of spurious packages and feels like a hack.

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General Board / C++ Eclipse MDG Link

« on: June 19, 2006, 01:40:55 pm »

Hi, Are there plans to add C++ support to the Eclilpse MDG Link? Thanks - E

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How do you get the rtf from a document artifac

« on: June 09, 2006, 08:07:23 am »

Thanks for the response Steve, I can't get the RTF Generator to do what I want. (Problems with the editor, cutting and pasting protected text, swapping the order of elements produced  i.e. stuff for another thread).

Using C# or VB is difficult, as the content of a document artifact is stored in a zipped format and afaik there is no get-and-unzip-method in the API.
hth Stefan

If it the normal zip file format, then I'd be willing to jump through the hoops of finding/calling an external library to zip/unzip the content.  

Sparx developers, it would be amazingly great if you added access to the RTF in the automation interface.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / How do you get the rtf from a document artifact?

« on: June 06, 2006, 08:03:36 am »

Hi, I'm trying to generate some custom documentation, but cannot figure out how to get the rtf from a document artifact. Could one of you EA experts post a snippet showing how its done (in vb or C#)? Thanks! - E