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General Board / Re: Precise element sizing

« on: May 18, 2020, 11:11:16 am »

Is this a feature that is in the backlog?

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General Board / Precise element sizing

« on: May 18, 2020, 07:17:29 am »

Sparx has made leaps and bounds when it comes to customizing visual aspects and the ability to perform "same height and width" functions shows this.  I see at the bottom of Sparx where it indicates precise width and height (plus coordinates).  It would really be outstanding if you could click into that to manually adjust size to precision (much like you can with PowerPoint or Visio).

Does anybody know if this is a feature I am not aware of?

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General Board / Navigation Cells and custom images

« on: May 18, 2020, 03:11:53 am »

A suggestion regarding Navigation Cells and Images: it would be very handy if you could select Navigation Cell images from the Image Manager.  While the supplied images are actually quite good, I have several use cases where using custom images to match various concepts would be quite useful.

(maybe someone can tell me there is a way to do this and I just don't know how)

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General Board / Re: Metamodel Views and Templates Package

« on: May 17, 2020, 10:37:27 pm »

I'm guessing some of the inconsistent and inaccurate behavior is all related - potentially to my original ask on this thread:

I've confirmed that if you define/create a related template in the Template Package, when you go to create a diagram with a specific metamodel view, the diagram type defaults to "Class" rather than the custom defined diagram type.  If you remove the related template in the Template Package and go to create a diagram with the specific metamodel view, the diagram type reflects the appropriate defined diagram type.

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General Board / Metamodel Views and Templates Package

« on: May 16, 2020, 10:46:14 pm »

I get the concept of Views, however it would be really handy if Templates could discern the difference between Views of a diagram type.  A specific use case would be that some default appearance and settings could be different from one View to another and/or different from the primary diagram type.

Any suggestions/ideas on an approach?

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General Board / Re: Custom Metamodel Diagram View

« on: May 14, 2020, 11:12:33 pm »

Update: to get the "basic hello world" scenario to work, I learned that the v15.1 help on this topic can't stop at row 3 and then jump to the end (create profile and add it to the MDG).  You have to at least add one "expose" object (rows 5-7)...anyways row 3 statement at the bottom is a bit misleading (however I get that it is just my interpretation of that statement in row 3).

Question: when I install the MDG for the diagram view in an EAPX repository, when I create a new diagram, the Diagram Types shows two (2) of the same diagram view.  I created a new EAPX to re-test on a clean and unencumbered repository and got the same double view results.  However when I install this same MDG in a database (SQLServer) repository, I get the results that I would expect which shows only 1 of the diagram view.  Has anybody experienced similar issues with Diagram Views?

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General Board / Re: Profile stereotype connector labels

« on: May 14, 2020, 09:51:01 am »

That is a great idea.  I did the following and it works:

Code: [Select]

shape targettoplabel
{
print("uses");
}

shape sourcetoplabel
{
print("is used by");
}

Follow-on question:  this may be a brainless question, but is it possible to set the target.name and source.name instead through shape script? Or is this what Geert was referring to regarding an add-in?

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General Board / Profile stereotype connector labels

« on: May 14, 2020, 01:54:36 am »

I like that with Quick Linker you can define _MeaningForwards and _MeaningBackwards to indicate to the modeler the role meaning between source and target for a connector.

The question: is there a way to set the connector source and target labels to reflect the meaning and not require the modeler to type in the labels each and every time?  (also to keep things very consistent for a specific connector type)

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General Board / Re: Custom Metamodel Diagram View

« on: May 12, 2020, 10:34:11 pm »

Good point - simple definition here is a basic "hello world" following the Sparx guide.

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General Board / Re: Custom Metamodel Diagram View

« on: May 12, 2020, 10:07:08 am »

In the "Create Custom Diagram View in a Profile" section, performed rows 1-3 and then saved the profile and compiled the MDG as normal.  The very last sentence of row 3 is what I am looking for as a quick outcome to ensure things are working properly in the most simplistic form.

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General Board / Custom Metamodel Diagram View

« on: May 12, 2020, 03:59:11 am »

I'm testing out creating metamodel Diagram Views in the latest version (1528). Was successful in previous versions. When something doesn't work as expected, I sometimes go to the basics and just test that out again.  In the User Guide, there is a simple step to "Extending a UML Diagram Type" (row 3).  For something so basic I cannot get this to work now - anybody else having issues with v15.x regarding this?

https://www.sparxsystems.com.au/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/modeling/custommetamodelview.html

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General Board / Re: Shape Script, native shape, and something simple like fill color

« on: November 11, 2019, 01:49:31 am »

v15 has a "new" feature to alter the appearance of a diagram by selecting the "Custom Style" checkbox that makes things appear a bit more visually appealing yet maintain semantic integrity.

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General Board / Re: Shape Script, native shape, and something simple like fill color

« on: November 10, 2019, 06:36:44 am »

Thanks that worked perfectly.  Now only if there is a way to reflect that in a "Custom Style" diagram...

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General Board / Shape Script, native shape, and something simple like fill color

« on: November 10, 2019, 02:56:04 am »

Based on a tagged value, I would like to change the color of the "native" shape - meaning I don't want to recreate the shape (through shape script) just to get it looking like the native shape only to change the fill color.  Any ideas?

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General Board / CodeWeavers CrossOver and EMF/WMF images

« on: December 11, 2018, 06:27:56 am »

I've been using EMF/WMF images which work great in Sparx EA on a PC (v14.1).  Thus far EMF/WMF has been simply the best method for scalable vector graphics in Sparx EA.

When viewing the same exact repository on a Mac through CodeWeavers CrossOver (v18.1) the EMF/WMF images do not resolve.  I understand EMF/WMF are Windows specific, but I thought CodeWeavers CrossOver abstracted that as well.

Does anybody know if there is a CodeWeavers CrossOver configuration for this, or another approach where I can still leverage EMF/WMF?