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Suggestions and Requests / Re: AutomationInterface: retrieveAllElements()

« on: August 01, 2005, 06:51:39 am »

thats not the problem, but again i can only traverse the repository recursivly with the automationinterface, which takes quite a long time on a huge model.

since EA uses an access db, i assume that there exists something like an element table. thus a query like  

Code: [Select]

SELECT * FROM elements and populating a collection with the returned stuff be several times faster.

and because the repository changes during modeling, a one time traversion of the model at startup won't be of great help

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Suggestions and Requests / AutomationInterface: retrieveAllElements()

« on: August 01, 2005, 05:36:38 am »

hello,

we are currently creating an addin for EA and thus heavily using the automation interface. if we want to search the whole model for a certain criteria, we have to recursivly go through the model each time.
so how about a function returning all the elements in a flat collection?
example:

public EA.Collection getAllElements()  -> returning all elements in a model (repository)

the following convenience function would also be cool:

public EA.Collection getAllElements(EA.Package start) -> returning all elements of a package and its subpackages, starting from the given package.


thanks for your great efforts...

regards,
marco

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General Board / Re: Parameter Set Notation?

« on: April 24, 2007, 08:04:50 am »

just had to do a model that requires parameter sets. i was really surprised when i noticed that EA isn't supporting such a significant feature (i.e., indicating an or relation between object flows in an activity diagram)

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General Board / Re: Parameter Set Notation?

« on: April 24, 2007, 08:04:12 am »

just had to do a model that requires parameter sets. i was really surprised when i noticed that EA isn't supporting such a significant feature (i.e., indicating an or relation between object flows in an activity diagram)

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: debugging  an add-in from vs.net

« on: September 01, 2005, 01:28:28 am »

Hey Paolo,
Actually there is a way to "watch" that attribute. You will notice in the watch area if you just add eaPackage you will get a value of {EA.PackageClass} and a type of EA.Package.

sometimes if have this type/value construct you describe, but often my objects have {System.__ComObject} as value. may someone has an explanation for me?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: debuging  an add-in from vs.net

« on: August 31, 2005, 11:43:30 pm »

its working...thanks a lot for your hints tom.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / debuging  an add-in from vs.net

« on: August 31, 2005, 01:43:16 pm »

folks,

can somebody give me a hint, how to attach a debugger from vs.net to an EA addin?
till now, i wrote testclasses for my code and started them from vs.net in debug mode. but sometimes it would be helpful to debug the addin directly in EA.

i hope i put my question clearly ;-)

thanks,
marco

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EA 769 throws COM exceptions...

« on: August 31, 2005, 11:28:39 pm »

imho i dont think it has something to do with caching - maybe it has something to do which 'version' of your addin dll is still registered and getting called when starting EA.

i am now using a tool called Regmon [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html] to see what values are accessed in the registry (during EA startup) and thus i can see what addin.dll is actually called (you may use your addin name as a filter in regmon).

imho it has something to do with the interop functionality and registering for it...

regards,
marco

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EA 769 throws COM exceptions...

« on: August 31, 2005, 01:35:29 pm »

i tried paolos solution again and it seems i made a failure before, because now it worked

thanks for the help,


marco

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EA 769 throws COM exceptions...

« on: August 31, 2005, 05:11:10 am »

deleting and recreating references didnt help for me.

it also seems that the EA.Interop.dll has the same version (2.10.238.1) for both 768 and 769.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Working with swimlines throught COM (EA)

« on: August 30, 2005, 03:16:59 am »

you should work with partitions instead of swimlanes. they can be accessed through the automation interface like other elements.

note: in the uml metamodel exist no swimlanes - what you may be know from rational rose as swimlanes are in fact partitions.

regards,

marco

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Apply Pattern by Automation Interface

« on: September 01, 2005, 03:13:22 am »

folks,

we would need to apply an UML pattern by the automation interface. i didnt find a method for it in the automation reference. isn't that possible or is there maybe a workaround  using the ImportXMI method of the repository class?

thanks,
marco

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Add standard connector + icon to UML Profile

« on: August 29, 2005, 03:30:18 am »

i think this feature would make modeling with profiles much easier and faster. we have also wanted to request his

+1


marco

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Seperator in EA AddIn Menu

« on: August 12, 2005, 08:08:36 am »

it worked . thx ea support  

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Seperator in EA AddIn Menu

« on: August 10, 2005, 05:30:56 am »

hello,

is it possible to add a seperator to an ea add-in menu? if yes, can someone tell me how to do this please?


thanks,

marco