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General Board / Re: Delete a project?

« on: December 15, 2005, 01:58:25 pm »

FAQ!

I checked the HELP but not the FAQ.

Sorry!!! <s>

Thanks very much for the reply.

-- M

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General Board / Delete a project?

« on: December 15, 2005, 04:26:52 am »

How do you delete a project so it doesn't appear in the list of "Recent projects"?

I often create a project in the wrong directory then end up having two of them in this list.

Deleting an actual project doesn't seem to be intuitive.

I can find things like delete use case view, but not to just get rid of an entire project.

Thanks very much in advance.

-- M

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General Board / Re: Interfaces don't update

« on: October 03, 2005, 04:29:26 am »

Lots of good replies here.

I'd be happy if there were just an option where I could decide the behavior: manual or automatic.

That would leave it up to the user as many have written here.

In most projects, It's just me doing my part of the UML. I'm not implementig Microsoft's interfaces, just my own.

Since a class must implement all the interfaces the interface promises, then, yes, if somebody creates a new interface method, then the tool should create a new stub method in the classes that implement the interface. Then, the code will compile and the contract is maintained.

Even two *manual* right-click options would be an improvement: "Update realization" (for the current one selected), and, "Update all realizations" for the whole model.

I really wish the option were there to also have it update them automatically.

Hopefully in some future version.

Thanks.

-- M

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General Board / Re: Interfaces don't update

« on: October 01, 2005, 06:41:21 am »

My point was that the genereated code is not correct based on the contract betwen the interface and the class that implements it -->

So, if you add a method to an interface, EA doesn't update the class with this interface method that the class *must* overload.

>>> So, the generated code will not even compile! <<<

I'm certainly no UML expert (another reason I bought the tool in the first place!), but this isn't what I was expecting or what I was hoping for when I bought this tool.

I appreciate your offer for automation, but with my project timelines, I'll just use EA for (mostly) documentation now.



Thanks very much for your kind replies!

-- M

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General Board / Re: Interfaces don't update

« on: October 01, 2005, 04:28:54 am »

Thanks for your reply.

Not updating the class when the interface changes is, IMHO, a *MAJOR* UI defect pure and simple.

Not updating the class when the interface changes violates the contract between interface and class.

The interface shouldn't "leave it up to me" to do the hard work.

That's why I spent all this $$$ on the UML tool!

Yikes!!!

Thanks again

-- M

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General Board / Interfaces don't update

« on: September 30, 2005, 11:16:02 am »

I have an interface which another class "Realizes" (the arrow points to the interface from the class.)

The issue I'm having is that if I add a method to the interface, EA (772) doesn't automaitcally add the method to the class which implements the interface.

But, if I drop the "Realizes" arrow and re-add it, all is OK.

Why doesn't EA automaticall update the class when I update the interface?

I don't see how to automate this.

Thanks in advance.

-- M

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General Board / New to EA

« on: September 30, 2005, 08:12:15 am »

I'm having a few "newbie" problems with Build 772.

I've created a relatively simple class diagram with three elements (two classes and one interface).

(Issue 1)

The diagram elements started out as a Java diagram (I don't see how to change the default to C# for a given project) and I later changed each diagram element's type to C#.

However when I generate code to get the three classes, I get one .cs class generated and to with .java extensions (even though the internal file is c# syntax for all three files).

I've re-opened each element and made sure it was "C#". I tried saving the project, closing it, etc., but I still get one .CS and two .java file extensions.

What do I need to do here to fix this?

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(Issue 2)

When I generated code, I initially picked the C:\TEMP directory just so I could see what was happening before I transferred the actual code to INETPUB.

But, now everytime I generate code it goes to C:\TEMP.

I don't see how to configure the output directory for a project so I can control where the generated C# files are written (*at the project level*).

What do I need to do to fix this?

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(Suggestion):

Perhaps I don't know how to use this feature properly, but when you create the "getters" and "setters" for all the properties in your class, it seems you have to do them one at a time.

If this is true, it would be great if EA could let me do either of the following:

1. Present all the properties with get / set checkboxes so I can set them all at once, and/or

2. Allow me select more than one property to create the getters/setters for so I don't have to do each one individually.

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Thanks very much to anyone's help on getting me up to speed with this terrific tool!

-- M

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General Board / Re: Can't view diagram after save and open

« on: January 24, 2005, 06:30:58 am »

Thanks all!!!!!

This is terrific support.

Much appreciated.

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General Board / Re: Can't view diagram after save and open

« on: January 24, 2005, 04:21:05 am »

Yes, that was it, but it shows up under USE CASE Views even though it 's a class diagram.

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General Board / Can't view diagram after save and open

« on: January 23, 2005, 07:48:27 am »

OK, I'm new to EA. I really like the product.

However, I'm having a problem where I create a class diagram, save it, close EA, open EA, and then click on the project I saved, but I don't see how to get to the class diagram.

I'm sure this is a simple thing I'm doing wrong.

Can someone please explain how I open a saved class diagram once I exit and re-start EA?

Thanks!!!

-- M