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General Board / Re: Move class diagram

« on: April 25, 2005, 04:41:43 pm »

I t would be a heck of a lot easier and much more intuitive if you could select the elements and simply drag them to the new diagram. The dragging process should automatically delete them from the previous diagram.

This would be a nice feature to add.

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General Board / Forcing diagram to update

« on: April 22, 2005, 06:57:42 pm »

I created a class using the C# version of Microsoft Visual Studio. After creating the class I used EA to import (reverse engineer) the class and it did a wonderful job.

After that I went to the source code using Visual Studio and added a class INSIDE my previously created class. Once I finished doing that, I used EA to reverse engineer the class again and it added the other class in the diagram (nice).

Lastly, I went to the source code again and this time I DELETED the INNER class. Once I finished doing that, I used EA to reverse engineer the class again but this time nothing happened! The inner class remained in the diagram!!

Why was the deleted inner class not deleted from the EA diagram? Is there a way to tell EA to reflect this change no matter what?

Thanks.

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General Board / Re: Class attribute and LET GET pair

« on: August 12, 2002, 06:50:44 am »

Wouldn't want it any other way! Since the three are completely unrelated   (well not entirely - they are associated).

As an example, I have a property ComPort and a private variable mComPort (which, you guessed it, stands for the serial port over which communication takes place). mComPort only holds a non-zero value if the port is actually open. The property get ComPort returns either the ComPort that was configured (through other means) or, if the port is open, the port that is actually being used. The property let Comport always configures the comport and if the port is currently open, it closes it and reopens the new port. As you can see each has different behavior and should therefore be described differently.

Now what would be nice is some nice method to quickly glance over the association of this triplet.

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General Board / Re: Reports on Todo, Project issues and Model Glos

« on: August 05, 2002, 09:09:23 am »

Rene,
Any chance of making what you've done available to other EA users?

Ronnie

No, sorry As I said, it's a purely internal thing currently (besides I am slightly ashamed of the spaghetti-ness of the thing, it's a quickie we just cobbled together  ).

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General Board / Re: Reports on Todo, Project issues and Model Glos

« on: July 31, 2002, 07:56:35 am »

I have a suggestion which might help you get any report you want out of EA fairly easily: use the ReadOnly Automation feature. I've written (and am still writing) this totally useless report generator on EA Models that grabs stuff from an EA Model and puts it in a report the way we want it. So far, it does a nice job of functional specifications (writes a Word document on the fly - capturing only the explicitly speficied and implicited assumed, but glosses over implementation details), resource planning to an Excel spreadsheet (project to follow), API documentation for components (html + a HTML Help project file) and defect reports/overviews. Currently in the works are test-plans and manuals that you can hand out to test-people, etc.

A bit of understanding of XML and a decent XML DOM API are essential (MSXML3 or MSXML4 are what we use).

Note that I'm not handing out this software: it does documentation the way we want it and that fit our procedures which are rapidly evolving at moment.