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Suggestions and Requests / Reader for iOS (and evtl. Android)

« on: July 10, 2011, 06:15:55 pm »

As the iPad is a great new tool for reviewing and rethinking concepts and models, I would really love to have at least a reader to see my EA-Models the same way I had them in the PC. Even better would be support for note entering per element. Currently I can only export PDF/RTF to see my models with no tree view, no details and no active diagrams.
A full featured editor would be nice, but not so important (and I guess much more complicated) as a reader with note-changing capabilities.
Ronald Steinhau

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Suggestions and Requests / MDG Eclipse - a few suggestions

« on: June 10, 2007, 03:48:52 am »

Hi,
I am very happy to finally see a better integration of EA into Eclipse with V2.0 of MDG/Eclipse. In my team we are not so much interested in the round-trip part, but in having more integrated access to our models and the information in it. We generate Ecore (EMF) models from EA and use the tool chain of EMF after that.
A few recommendations for the Version 2, to make us happy:
1) a quick switch (e.g. a history) of lately opened diagrams or a full EA explorer/navigator showing all EAP files found in the workspace (of course in a tree).
2) A fast find (like the find Type for Java) would also speed up things (may be even a find class in EA and than open the Logical Models where the class resides in the EA navigator).  
3) Another idea for faster access to diagrams: Have a "My Models/My Diagrams" folder as a permanent entry in your navigator where I can put links to diagrams by drag & drop.  Save this information on the client (for the user).  
4) Allow editing of tagged values from within Eclipse, as they are the main focus for code generation or model to model transformations.
5) Could you document the types (class pathes) of Java Objects representing a EA model (and may be other elements) in your navigator. This would allow us to add our generator menus to your navigator view.
Thanks in advance for at least thinking it over.
Ronald Steinhau, Entimo AG, Berlin

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Suggestions and Requests / Initial Information

« on: March 23, 2007, 02:56:04 am »

I couldn't find an option to be able to open a specific diagram at startup (e.g. when opening a project). Usually I put some hyperlinks of my main diagrams onto the diagram "Logical View", but I need to open that diagram "Logical View" manually before being able to access these Hyperlinks. I would prefer an option "startup diagram" that would automatically open a freely configurable diagram. From  there I can navigate to other diagrams using Hyperlinks or similiar linking techniques available in EA.
Ronald

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Java API - Connector End Problem

« on: July 18, 2007, 07:16:37 am »

My assumption about getRoleType() was wrong. To get the connection end type (class) of a role end, I have to query by the ID. Therefore - my mistake, no API bug here.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Java API - Connector End Problem

« on: July 04, 2007, 06:40:32 pm »

Thanks for replying, but the code (and the model) worked before. I have used GroovyCOM before and now that the Java API is available I would like to take advantage of typed access and changed the code only to follow the new API (in fact I had to change only a few things). So I still think it might be a bug in the API.
Ronald

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Java API - Connector End Problem

« on: July 04, 2007, 02:41:22 am »

Using the latest beta 3 and the Java API, I do always get back an empty string when trying to access the role name, role type or other information of a connector end object.
Here is the code snippet (elem is a class object):

...
for (Connector link : elem.GetConnectors())
{
 ConnectorEnd clientElement = link.GetClientEnd();
 ConnectorEnd supplierElement = link.GetSupplierEnd();
 String eaStartType = clientElement.GetRoleType();
...

eaStartType is always empty.

Any suggestions?
Ronald