Messages

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General Board / Re: How to disable class diagram auto-layout on Insert Related Elements

« on: February 07, 2018, 07:59:58 pm »

  Thanks - never thought of looking there, checked all the other tool options!

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General Board / How to disable class diagram auto-layout on Insert Related Elements

« on: February 06, 2018, 08:11:04 pm »

(EA 13.5.1351)
When I  use Insert Related Elements to add elements related to a class EA, completely relays out the diagram. How can I stop this?

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Suggestions and Requests / Round-trip for XML schema

« on: July 11, 2009, 12:14:28 am »

The XML schema import works well and is a very useful tool for visualising complex schemas.  It would be much more useful if the schema could be updated from code once it had been modified externally.

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Suggestions and Requests / Preserve line breaks in Notes field on reverse-eng

« on: April 16, 2009, 08:44:34 pm »

EA code generation writes Notes as comments into code, preserving the line breaks as defined. The line breaks are removed on reverse-engineering, losing the formatting.

HTML tags such as <b></b> and <ul></ul> are already used for markup, so <br /> should not be too tricky.

5

Suggestions and Requests / Object Lifetimes - Generate destructor (C#)

« on: March 25, 2009, 08:42:44 pm »

I would like to be able to switch off class destructor generation per language. For example I always want to generate destructors for C++ but never for C#.
C# Language options allow me to disable generation of finaliser and disposer but not the destructor.

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General Board / Scripting EA with PowerShell

« on: November 06, 2008, 08:57:23 pm »

Has anyone successfully tried scripting EA with PowerShell? There seems to be a problem with the COM interface exposed that prevents Powershell accessing type library information. The symptoms are indentical to those in this blog entry:
http://www.mcleod.co.uk/scotty/powershell/COMinterop.htm
I've successfully used the interop assembly to drive EA from C# but the same (or very similar) mechanisms don't work in PowerShell.

The C# code looks like this:

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EA.Repository r = new EA.RepositoryClass();
r.OpenFile("C:\\CMC.eap");
EA.Collection models = r.Models;
foreach (object obj in models)
{
    if (obj is EA.Package)
    {
         EA.Package package = (EA.Package)obj;
         MessageBox.Show(package.Name);
    }
}

PowerShell (standard COM interop):

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$rep = New-Object -ComObject EA.Repository
--- EA launches as COM server process with no visible window
$rep1.OpenFile("C:\CMC.eap")
Method invocation failed because [System.__ComObject] doesn't contain a method named 'OpenFile'.
At line:1 char:15
PowerShell using interop assembly:

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[system.reflection.assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\Sparx Systems\EA Trial\Interop.EA.dll")
$rep=New-Object EA.RepositoryClass
$rep.OpenFile("C:\CMC.eap")
$rep.ShowWindow(1)
---- EA Window shows loaded model
$models = [EA.Collection]$rep.Models
$models.Count
1 --- Correct count of top-level packages
$package = [EA.Package]$models.GetAt(0)
Cannot convert "System.__ComObject" to "EA.Package".
At line:1 char:37


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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / CORBA Interface inheritance

« on: March 07, 2010, 03:59:52 am »

The CORBA MDG does not seem to generate inheritance relationships for <<CORBAInterface>> classes. Also the Generate CORBA Elements operation does not carry over the Generalizes relationship when creating CORBAInterface classes from <<interface>> classes.