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Suggestions and Requests / Re: ObjectFlow from/to DecisionNode?

« on: December 02, 2004, 11:54:28 pm »

Hi all!

Since my upgrade from version 470 to 472 it works
On build 470 I get an error, when I try to connect an ActivityParameter with an DecisionNode via an ObjectFlow.

"The requested connection is UML compliant"

Thanks anyway - at least for the hint to the bugfix

I'm currently writing my diploma thesis and got different theoretical questions - relation of graphical notation with the UML metamodel - is this the right place to ask such questions or do I have to find another forum?

King regards,

Alex

P.S.: Is it planned to support an experimental xmi export, which is compliant to the uml2 metamodel?

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Suggestions and Requests / ObjectFlow from/to DecisionNode?

« on: December 02, 2004, 02:40:39 am »

Hi all!

Why doesn't EA allow to model a object flow from or to a decision node? In the UML Superstructure the DecisionNode has the following constraint:
12.3.22:
"The edges coming into and out of a decision node must be either all object flows or all control flows."

This implies, that it is allowed to model a object flow from or to a decision node...
Or did I miss anything?

Cheers,
Alex

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General Board / Re: CallOperationAction - Associations...

« on: January 04, 2005, 11:21:28 pm »

Hi all!

I've been given the following answer by the support team:

"At the moment, we have only implemented half of the functionality. That is, you can drag an operation from the Project View onto an activity diagram and it will create a CallOperationAction. So, for your example, dragging an operation "Operation" from a class "Class" will create a
CallOperationAction called "Operation (Class::)". Then you can rename the action to "ActionName" and it will be displayed as "ActionName (Class::Operation)" as required.

In one of the next few releases of EA, we will be introducing some means of selecting class and operation from a pick-list after the CallOperationAction has been created."

Greetings,

Alex

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General Board / CallOperationAction - Associations...

« on: December 28, 2004, 03:06:30 am »

Hi all!

Can anybody give me a hint how to set class and operation of an CallOperationAction? I can use a CallOperationAction in my diagram, but I can't  define the operation or its realising class
The behavioral classifier isn't really a solution...

Thanks in advance,

Alex

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General Board / Re: EA vs Borland Together

« on: December 16, 2004, 03:13:24 am »

@angel-o-sphere: Did they really fire most of their developers?? The new Together Designer 2005 works quite nice and doesn't really look, as if there are only ten guys working on it...

Alex

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General Board / Re: EA vs Borland Together

« on: December 11, 2004, 01:03:25 am »

Hi Roggan!

A few days ago I installed the Borland Togther Designer Trial Edition. There did have been two really great features:
* A syntax checker for OCL expressions (because I havn't greaty experiences with OCL, I can't rate the quality of it's checks...)
* A graphical model comparison to find the differences of two or three models

The main disadvantage of BT are its system requirements.

EA is much faster - because it is not written in java

A greate feature of EA are it's supported action semantics - you can explicitly model a CallBehaviorAction, CallOperationAction and other special actions. When EA starts to support an xmi export which is aligned to the uml2 metamodel, then it will be a VERY nice tool.

Regards,

Alex

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General Board / Alternate images for stereotypes in an profile

« on: November 29, 2004, 02:26:12 am »

Hi all!

During this weekend, I tried to create a custom uml profile for my domain.
I tried different ways (creating an profile inside EA and export it with the profile export function;
direct manipulation of an existing profile-xml-file; mixing an existing profile with my new elements),
but I couldn't make EA displaying my alternate images or showing different colors for my special
classes.

The goal I want to reach is, that I create an profile and when I apply an stereotype to an
classifier, then the look of the classifier changes (when this stereotype has an alternate image).

Is there any description, how I can  handle this - what requirements have to meet the images.
An actual dtd (or an schema!) for the profile xml (I don't understand what format the alternate colors for
the stereotypes have).

The description on the website is definetly out of date...
I'm using the build 740.

Thanks a lot for any help,

Alex Gordt