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Suggestions and Requests / Protocol State Diagrams

« on: May 05, 2005, 12:22:11 pm »

I am wondering if Sparx will add support for the protocol state machines in the near future. This could also be handy especially to the thread just posted how to link activity/state to operations.

thanks in advance...

Ronald

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Suggestions and Requests / Suggestions

« on: March 31, 2005, 12:02:37 am »

1. I would like to be able to define in communication diagram threaded behaviour as defined in the UML spec by using characters after the sequence number so for example being able to specify to messages with this numbering e.g:
1.1.1a
1.1.1b
This of course could then also be applied to sequence diagrams.

2. When using fragments EA could do more with this now its only a visual item and not bound to methods or any. I would love to see that EA would group the methods to its fragment when you place a fragment so it becomes more bound to the context you are using it in.

3.  Destroy mark in sequence diagram can not be controlled. When you define that a message has a lifecycle of 'new' then EA defines the destroy... I would like to be able to control when an instance gets destroyed or not.

4. Constraints/Tagged values in diagrams. We can define these very nicely but they are not visible in the diagrams. Which i find often mandatory. So for example i would like to be able to show attribute and method constraints in an following manner:
-int i = 0 {self.i<=1000} // attribute

+processDocument(Document d): void  { ... }

this could help in illustrating the semantic of the model in diagrams.

5. Querying the model. There are simple examples of this already in EA. But for example for impact analysis i would like to query the model which elements are connected to an certain usecase or requirement. Possible showing me an treeview or something likewise, so i can see tracebility in an better way than just an two dimensional matrix.


Thanks in advance!

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Wrap long members in diagram element

« on: March 31, 2005, 10:48:37 am »

I would already be very pleased with an option to show or not show package names... This is not always interesting and often clutters my diagrams with too long names....

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General Board / Re: Multiplicity

« on: April 26, 2005, 04:43:11 am »

I can not find any way to visualize it in a class diagram  
Lets hope class diagrams get some upgrades in the near future i would like to show much more that there is currently possible. Like constraints on attributes etc....

cheers

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General Board / Re: Multiplicity

« on: April 26, 2005, 02:17:53 am »

Multiplicity on the behalf of classifiers can be used to indicate the number of occurences this element may have. For example setting a multiplicity of 1 can be compared to an singleton class.

cheers

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General Board / Re: defining shape kind of element in profile

« on: April 26, 2005, 09:18:28 am »

Found it.. sorry for not reading the documentation...

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General Board / defining shape kind of element in profile

« on: April 26, 2005, 09:12:26 am »

Hi,
I am looking for a way to define a uml element in a profile with a custom shape. Anyone have any tips?

thanks in advance,
Ronald

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General Board / concurrency in interaction diagrams

« on: April 22, 2005, 10:16:04 am »

Hi all,

I cant find in anyways the option to define threaded behaviour in communication diagrams, by being able to add letters to my message numbers like this 1.1a & 1.1b
Also in the sequence diagrams i dont see options to create thick borders on instances to indicate they are threaded.
Am i missing something here or are there other ways to illustrate this?

with kind regards,
Ronald

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General Board / Re: Use Case

« on: March 05, 2005, 05:54:01 am »

Jans,

The business process diagram can help you indentify the begin to end processes which are implemented in the system these can be used to define the usecases.

regards,
Ronald

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General Board / Re: EA crashes when editing Interface

« on: February 26, 2005, 06:56:53 am »

I have the same problem..

It occurs when you create an class diagram. Add an class & interface... show that the class is realizing the interface. Add operations to the interface and in some cases EA will then crash.

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General Board / specifying threaded behaviour on communication

« on: February 26, 2005, 06:54:20 am »

Hi,

I am looking at creating an communication diagram and illustrate threaded behaviour in there. But i can not find any way to mark the sequence numbers on my messages indicating its a thread.

ex 1.1a and 1.1b is not possible

Anyone have any idea if this is possible within EA?

thnx./