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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Problems with Model Add-In Event EA_OnTabChanged parameters

« on: October 31, 2025, 07:35:01 pm »

Hi 

I'm working with Sparx Model Add-Ins to provide some automation and "GUI extension" to the Sparx EA client.
I assume with Model Add-Ins the already existing Add-In concept is replicated so that I could use the existing reference e.g. for event handling
to execute certain actions after the user switched between diagrams I use the event EA_OnTabChanged which is defined here:https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/17.1/add-ins___scripting/ea_ontabchanged.html
The event provides 3 parameters:

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Repository (EA.Repository), TabName (String) and DiagramID (Long) - but this doesn't seem to be the case. When I try to output TabName or DiagramID with Session.Output or Repository.WriteOutput TabName and DiagramID are shown as [object Object]
With other events like EA_MenuClick this works fine (e.g. for the String ItemName)
I'm working with Sparx EA V16.1.1628

The example model doesn't cover EA_OnTabChanged, so I hope that I can find some help how to solve this here 

Happy Halloween,
Oliver

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SaveDiagram performance V17.1 compared to V16.1

« on: September 04, 2025, 11:04:24 pm »

@Geert I used v17.1.1712 (no changes regarding diagram saves since then, according to the release notes)
Did you use 32bit oder 64bit?

BR, Oliver

I did the test with both. No difference.

Geert

Thanks a lot!
BR, Oliver

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SaveDiagram performance V17.1 compared to V16.1

« on: September 04, 2025, 10:08:48 pm »

@Geert I used v17.1.1712 (no changes regarding diagram saves since then, according to the release notes)
Did you use 32bit oder 64bit?

BR, Oliver

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SaveDiagram performance V17.1 compared to V16.1

« on: September 04, 2025, 07:35:31 pm »

Thanks Takeshi and Geert for the fast replies 

@Takeshi: I will look into the snapshot feature - I wasn't aware of that - it might even get handy for me, because I already built a similar routine for diagram snapshots to use them in overview diagram setting with hyperlinks from the image to the diagram itself - but my first version is slow because I had to use a lot of file handling (exporting png, zipping around, converting to hex and pushing it back into the database  )
I had a quick look and found some information, but I wasn't able to find where to set the switch. Could you provide me some further guidance please?

@Geert: What was your version for V17 and was the automatic snapshot feature Takeshi mentioned set to off?

BR, Oliver

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / SaveDiagram performance V17.1 compared to V16.1

« on: September 02, 2025, 11:52:39 pm »

Hi There 

I'm new to this forum and asking for help. I used the great content here in the past "passively" to learn Sparx EA automation.
Over time I created an extensive JavaScript library mainly focussing on diagram generation automation. I tried to achieve near-real-time response times and encountered a problem while testing V17.1 64 bit (currently using V16.1 32 bit) - with qea/SQLite databases

I have to start many automations by saving the current diagram (Repository.SaveDiagram()) to not lose user changes. With version V16 this takes about 0,1s for standard diagrams - with version V17 it is 0,8-1s (even for completely unchanged diagrams) which is a huge impact when mostly save and reload are the time consuming actions and many automations finish (in V16) in a total time below 0,3-0,5s with complex automations. So the save action is 8-10 worse in V17 compared to V16

I created a small script to measure the performance and I hope you could help verifying this behaviour or find a solution.
If you have the same experience would you see this as a bug?

Best regards, Oliver

the test script (for the Script Diagram Group) I used for the tests ...

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Repository.EnsureOutputVisible("Script")
var curDG = Repository.GetCurrentDiagram()
if (curDG != null){
var start = new Date().getTime()
Repository.SaveDiagram(curDG.DiagramID)
var stop = new Date().getTime()
Repository.WriteOutput("Script", "Time: " + (stop - start) + " ms", 0)
}