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General Board / Re: Use cases - double click on diagrams

« on: February 25, 2023, 07:45:59 am »

Hi,

Yes, it seems that double click is not customizable.

Shortcut Alt + Enter open Properties as well but finally I have assigned my own shortcut to open this dialog more comfortable (without necessity to move hand from mouse to keyboard).

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General Board / Use cases - double click on diagrams

« on: February 23, 2023, 05:18:18 pm »

Hi,

I have just switched to v16.1 of EA from v15.2. I see that after double clik on use case on diagram instead of clasic properites dialog the structered scenarios page is opened. I understand that it is because for use cases is defined "special action" - structured scenarios.

Is it possible to switch off this feature?

I remember that is was possible in some previous versions of EA but now I cannot find such option.
For users who don't use structured scenarios (like me), it's frustrating to see them after every double click. 

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General Board / Re: EA 14 - double click on elements in project browser

« on: August 16, 2018, 05:53:21 pm »

Thanks a lot Sunshine for explanations.

Nevertheless in EA 14 build 1423 there is no option Start | View | Visual style | Prefer Property Dialogs (but in help it is!)

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General Board / EA 14 - double click on elements in project browser

« on: August 16, 2018, 04:59:01 am »

I have just moved from EA 13.5 to 14 and first not nice feature I have found is that double click on element in project browser do not open "Properties Dialog". In fact behavior is difficult to understand. Even more there is no such option in context menu (rmb) - instead I see only different "Properties" dialog. After some investigations I have found that I can open "Properties Dialog" by ALT + ENTER.

Maybe this change is intentional but in all previous versions double click open "Properties Dialog"...

Is it possible to set double click action in project browser to old behavior?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Destroyed chars in XMI version control file

« on: May 03, 2017, 08:28:04 pm »

I do not think so this is eap file and Jet4 issue because:

1. Manual export of package to XMI file with code page option set UTF-8 works OK. Version control "check-in" with this option set to UTF-8 produces wrong characters in svn file.
2. The wrong behavior happens not only on MS Access eap but with using feap and MySQL as well.

Anyway to be sure I have made some exercises with Jet 4 and downloaded from Sparx unicode eap file but without success

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Bugs and Issues / Destroyed chars in XMI version control file

« on: May 03, 2017, 02:40:20 am »

My configuration:
- EA 13 (1310),
- Windows 10,
- projects under subversion version control (svn),
- Preferences->Xml Specification->Code page = UTF-8
- Types of local model DB: eap, feap, MySQL

I have found that characters from outside basic ascii scope (in my particular case Polish chars like ą, ź, ć are destroyed during XMI file genereation).
Finally such example source text "Zażółć gęślą jaźń" in notes of any EA element after check in and check out is destroyed to such text "Zażółć gęślÄ… jaźń". Subsequent check-ins produce quite new longer strange text.

I have found temporary solution - just to switch to default windows-1252 code page (Preferences->Xml Specification->Code page). In such case "foreign" chars are stored as XML entities and all works OK...

Another observations:
1. Manual export of package to some XMI (i.e. other than svn folder) makes correct UTF-8 file!
2. On configuration like below:
- EA 13 (1310),
- Windows 2003,
- projects under subversion version control,
- Preferences->Xml Specification->Code page = UTF-8
- Types of local model DB: feap
XMI svn files are generated correctly.

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General Board / Re: Distorted BPMN Diagram Shapes and Connectors

« on: March 22, 2017, 02:11:06 am »

Hi all

I have found the same problems as Stoppy.

My environment: windows 10, EA 13 bulid 1310

How to reproduce "bug":
1. create/go to some BPMN "Bussines Process Diagram"
2. drag from Project Browser into diagram some element e.g. start event
As a result at first empty "Structural Elements" window appears and after pressing "Close" StartEvent element in diagram but instead circle the oval 

When you drag shape from Toolbox into diagram all is OK - element looks as expected (e.g. start event looks like circle).

How to temporarily avoid the problem - instead dragging element from Project browser use option "Insert other element" from context menu of diagram.

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Suggestions and Requests / Polish spell checker

« on: March 08, 2012, 09:02:16 pm »

Hi

Is it possible to have Polish spell checking option in EA?

If not prepare it for future versions, please... I tried to replace *.?lx files but without success.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Free text fields - 2 suggestions

« on: December 11, 2007, 11:04:03 am »

Hi guys!
What we are talking about!?

I would like to have only two things:
1. possibility of formatting fonts in “description” controls of EA (increasing fonts is most important). If you try to write scenarios of use case by all day - you admit me right
2. possibility writing alternative descriptions in another languages (for example I write use case scenario in English and after I order translation it in EA directly into Bulgarian for example)

You can treat above as a user requirements

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Suggestions and Requests / Free text fields - 2 suggestions

« on: December 11, 2007, 01:40:35 am »

I’m using EA from 2 years, and in my opinion this is the best UML tool on market (from time to time I’m forced to use another products e.g. RSA, MagicDraw and I’m always very happy when I come back to EA).

From my experiences, UML modeling is always combination diagrams and texts (sometimes quite long text descriptions). Description should be often prepared in more than one language (e.g. english as base and second polish – it happens in international projects/teams).
In all my projects, documentation generated from EA was very important (customers always want to have comprehensive documentation in doc/pdf format instead of “eap” file, which can be only attachment to documentation).
For documentation I prepared set of “xslt” transformation from XMI to HTML, and generated HTML I just copy to MS Word (of course I know that EA have possibility to generate documentation directly to RTF format, but I prefer XSLT because I love “xslt” and I fell free in defining format of specifications – sorry )

Based on above, now I have 2 problems (and suggestions) with EA:
1.
I want to have possibility to put descriptions of elements in more than one language (one should be base e.g. English). I think about all “description” controls in EA (e.g. “Notes” fields).
2.
Writing and reading more than one paragraph of text in description fields (e.g. scenarios of use cases) is unbearable to eyes in EA. Additionally I can’t to format text (bold, italic etc). Maybe the best solution of this problem will be change format of description controls from plain text to HTML (more precisely XHTML). I saw something like that in MagicDraw.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Font size in "notes" fields

« on: March 07, 2006, 11:57:50 pm »

Yeah yeah, we have been talking about that for a long time. You'd better go for something Wiki-like

Yes, it may be a good solution.  

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Font size in "notes" fields

« on: March 06, 2006, 08:19:44 am »

I think about fonts in dialog boxes, not on diagrams.

For example:
1. Select some class element
2. From context menu select "Properties"
3. On dialog box set cursor in "Notes" field
4. Context menu don't have "Appearance" option  

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Suggestions and Requests / Font size in "notes" fields

« on: March 06, 2006, 05:55:02 am »

Is there any chance in future versions to implement possibility of setting size of fonts in "notes" fields?
Work with high resolution LCD monitor > 1024*768 is very tiring to eyes.

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General Board / Shortcut to script

« on: June 16, 2011, 11:02:46 pm »

Hi

Is it possible to assign Shortcut Key (e.g. Ctrl+1) to particular script in "Scripting" window (to run this script of course)?

I have just prepared some very useful script. I am extensively using it but opening scripting window, searching and pointing script by mouse is not nice for such work.

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General Board / Re: "Note" on diagram to a few elements

« on: March 10, 2006, 07:26:17 am »

Try the quick link arrow. It will connect to any other element - except connectors, where you have to right click and use Attach Note or Constraint.

Thank you. It's very nice