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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Actionscript 2.0 support

« on: February 06, 2004, 05:40:58 am »

>per default it searches only in the last 7 days
OMG  
I've never seen a search/forum with this "feature" :-/

Well, some forums have a setting to show you only the posts in the lasts X days ... but I always set it to "ALL" and this forum doesn't have it...

Thanx for pointing it out!
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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Actionscript 2.0 support

« on: February 05, 2004, 08:32:58 pm »

>With 'Search' you can find your post

Well, if I search for 'parser' the only result that pops up is this thread.
However I clicked on my name and then selected the option 'Show the last  posts of this person' and I was able to see it there. Strange, isn't it?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Actionscript 2.0 support

« on: February 02, 2004, 12:38:36 am »

Hey, I wrote about exactly the same thing some time ago... although the post have been deleted  

It had the title "Import parser extensibility" and basically I was exposing my problem (I have for now more than 60 classes in AS2 and I am forced to convert them to Java sources and then import in EA for UML) and I was asking if the import parser is extensible by the user and ... well the message disappeared without a trace. I either asked the wrong question or this "YaBB" forum is buggy and users can lose posts

Anyway support for AS2 (or a generic ECMAScript 4 parser) would be a really nice addition.

Thank you,
.x.

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General Board / Re: Importing is ruining my existing layout

« on: January 19, 2004, 01:41:30 am »

The new ability to select several diagrams and use "Synchronize all selected objects" is really good!

Thanks a lot for this benefic change!

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General Board / Importing is ruining my existing layout

« on: January 08, 2004, 11:36:25 pm »

I have until now more than 60 Data Types (enums, classes etc) in this project with various relationships between them and when I do 'Import Directory Tree' EA arranges the DTs on screen in not quite the best layout (to use an euphemism . So I always have to spend more than one hour to layout everything nice and clear and after I do it I feel quite happy

Now the weird thing comes in. After I modify some of the above DTs (the code) and then I re-import with the option 'Synchronize existing classes' everything gets deleted and the new classes are laid out using the default layout
If I use the option 'Overwrite existing classes' the same thing happens!
I even tried to lock the diagram hoping that EA will stop moving or deleting my old DTs and just update them or something. But NO! It added the new classes over the old ones so now I have everything two times... I didn’t know you can have in the same package two entities with the same name... Until now

Well, is there any way to really 'Synchronize existing classes' without messing out the existing layout?

Thank you,
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General Board / Import parser extensibility

« on: January 14, 2004, 10:14:51 pm »

Is there any possibility for the user to add a new language to the list of the imported languages?

For example I'm using ActionScript 2 which is quite similar to ECMAScript 4, so quite similar to Java, but still not similar enough to be able to decently import my '.as' files after I change their name to '.java'
So I have to use all kind of regular expressions based search&replace in order to make them look like Java sources (I also managed to break EA build 657 in the process because I forgot to add ';' at the end of some variable declaration statements . And this conversion takes a lot of time and also makes the Forward Engineering process very difficult because I have to reconvert again

I saw in the EA folder some '*_syntax.xml' files, but I think they are used for syntax highlighting and not for importing the source code. Is there any possibility for the user to define the grammar for another language and EA to use it when importing? I think ArgoUML has something like this...

Thank you,
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