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Suggestions and Requests / Moving items with keyboard arrows

« on: August 24, 2004, 06:28:21 am »

During the course of creating a diagram, I always wish I could move the selected item left, right, up or down by a pixel using the keyboard arrows.
This is much quicker than trying to align things with the mouse and sometimes more useful than using alignment buttons from the toolbar.
Most drawing tools allow moving things around using keyboard arrows.
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Update: CJ is right, moving things around can be accomplished by holding SHIFT. I should have known such a basic feature wouldn't be missing from this *great* piece of software! I missed that part of the help file (and others I'm sure)  

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General Board / Re: arrow heads

« on: August 20, 2004, 01:28:19 pm »

What is the "meaning" of that? I mean, how can you have a UNIDIRECTIONAL navigability from the source to the target??? Obviously, if the target is the container, it MUST have navigability to its contained object, no? Seems to me only target to source and bidirectional navigability make any sense.

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General Board / Re: Possible C# code generation error

« on: August 23, 2004, 12:26:35 pm »

Possibly you had generated it once. Synchronize the file, then delete the destructor from the operations list (or you can do it the other way around and delete it in the source code and then re-synchronize...)

This should fix it. Seems EA does not readily overwrite previously generated/edited stuff. For example, generate with a namespace, then remove the namespace from the code file. You won't be able to get the namespace back in the code until you delete the code file and re-generate it...

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General Board / Re: composition mark on association

« on: August 19, 2004, 05:23:25 am »

Indeed, I was surprised too. Other tools seemed much more intuitive! Every single person I've shown it to thought EA had a bug.

Should EA change? I think not. It is clear in the UML spec after all, so we should get used to it. BUT it is so unexpected by so many people that maybe the documentation should be clear about it...

In any case, it's nice when fellow designers first report this "bug" (they all do) : you can point them to the UML definition and acquire instant "guru" status ;-).

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General Board / Re: Stupid question

« on: August 18, 2004, 08:22:13 am »

I second that opinion. Particularly due to fact that "new element" has a "star" in the upper left corner of the PAGE, seemingly meaning "new page" and not "new element".

I would reverse the icons AND I would add a new "star" to one of the upper left object of the current "new element" icon to show that it's a new "element" that is being created.

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General Board / Re: Stereotypes in RTF reports

« on: August 18, 2004, 05:33:24 am »

Keith,
Stereotypes do appear in build 734 (I tested), not only in the diagram, but ALSO in the RTF export.
Please be more specific: are you referring to stereotypes not being shown in the "diagrams" of the RTF file, or in the class description of the RTF, or what?

I would suggest you do a simple test: create a new project, drop a class with a stereotype and test your RTF export: does it show? If so, then you might want to "recover" your original database which might be corrupted.

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General Board / Re: Microsoft Jet Database error

« on: August 18, 2004, 05:20:42 am »

Your database file is opened. Reboot the computer and try again.

If that doesn't help, then the Access lock file has been left dangling: using Windows explorer, go to the location of your EA file. It has a .EAP extension.

Delete the file that has the same name but which has a .LDB extention. This is the Access lock file causing you problems. If you can't delete the lock file, then a program *IS* using the database...

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Bugs and Issues / Re: C# partial classes difficult to work with

« on: October 10, 2012, 03:28:32 am »

Thanks Kevin. I thought so too, but then I guess I was just "hoping" that EA must have some cleaner way to work with those partial classes instead of VERY confusing classes with all the same name!! There is just no cue as to which is which. There's no free lunch it seems

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Bugs and Issues / C# partial classes difficult to work with

« on: September 28, 2012, 04:01:20 am »

Not sure if that's a bug or me missing something, but HOW am I supposed to work with c# partial classes? The problem is that after reverse engineering such a class, I simply end up with as many classes of the same name as there were files with the partial class.

How am I supposed to use that? How should I know which of those classes to drop on a diagram? Often the partial is only used to separate a bigger class into smaller chunked that are logically separated in files. I would expect to only drop a single object on a diagram, no?