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Suggestions and Requests / Re: API Bug: Hover help over items in the Toolbox

« on: April 26, 2007, 04:34:57 am »

Oups, you are right, I tried with Class which is both a category and an element.
Sorry.

It's definitely good news that the next version will include tooltips for all elements!

Thanks for the quick feedback.

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Suggestions and Requests / API Bug: Hover help over items in the Toolbox

« on: April 23, 2007, 11:17:14 pm »

Hi

When you hover on one element of the UML toolbox on the left, you get the this yellow strip with a one-line help, like for most elements of Windows. (for example, a class has as help "Class: Structural Elements for class diagrams")

But this help strip is not updated if you move your mouse over another element of the toolbox. Try it with the icons of the toolbar on the top, below the menu, it does there.
You have to move your cursor out of the toolbox and enter it again.

It's an annoying bug, since it makes it painful to go through the help of every UML element of a category .

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Suggestions and Requests / Back/Forward, Navigation

« on: April 30, 2007, 12:25:46 am »

Hi

When following hyperlinks, I really miss a "Back" button which would send me back to the previous seen page, just like in any Web Browser.

Apparently, I am not the only one:
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1157014633;start=0#0

This thread is already quite old, are there any news on this feature?

Thanks!

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Synchronization of interfaces

« on: September 26, 2007, 07:19:26 am »

Some monkey decided that the declared interface "wasn't exactly what he needed" and changed it.  

This has nothing to do with updating the implementation classes automatically when configured so.

The issue you mention can be avoided by :
1. forbidding changes to the interface in the tool
2. forbidding changes to the interface in the review process

To implement 1. you propose to have "locked" interfaces. Why not, but it has nothing to do with the original issue.

By the way 2 is a valid option too.

Changing an interface is a major architectural decision

Not always, for example if you are in preliminary design phase or have control of all the depencencies.
(no, UML is not used only in giant project with big money)

But even when it's a major change in the project, it can be a necessary change. Then it's nice to have support from the tool to make it easier.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Synchronization of interfaces

« on: September 26, 2007, 02:32:27 am »

I vote for this feature too!

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: List all model's diagram

« on: August 29, 2007, 05:50:44 am »

Thanks!
It's quite limited though, since one can't have the full path, and can't double-click to open it either
I guess it will have to be a script again.

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Suggestions and Requests / List all model's diagram

« on: July 30, 2007, 05:32:24 am »

Sometimes a model structure is very complex or confusing.

It would be nice to get the list of all the diagrams in the model automatically and in a concise way.

The Rational SW Modeler proposes a virtual package just for this.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Multiple  dialogs & copy/move operati

« on: August 01, 2007, 03:04:58 am »

You can duplication ops/attrs by dragging from the project browser over the class icon on a diagram (welcome to EA's UI).

I wouldn't have found that one on my own. Thanks Thomas.

+1 to have a more intuitive way to do that (ie. copy/paste).

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Suggestions and Requests / "UML help" in the toolbox in EA 7

« on: July 10, 2007, 11:16:05 pm »

Hi,

the new context sensitive "UML help" is nice, but I can't understand why it's not available from the toolbox!

Right now, if you are not sure about an element, you have to create it first in your model before your can get some help on its usage...

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Suggestions and Requests / License usage statistics

« on: July 08, 2007, 10:42:22 pm »

Hi

We definitely need more statistics about the license usage, ie a log file with all the leases and releases, with date&user.

See also:
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1183451457

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General Board / Re: Timers on sequence diagrams

« on: April 18, 2008, 09:40:55 pm »

Did this get reported as a bug/feature request.

I don't think so.

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General Board / Re: Timers on sequence diagrams

« on: May 10, 2007, 05:14:13 am »

Thanks the information.

I will probably open a feature request.

In parallel, I am investigating the shape scripts.

I tried to set custom shapes for "message", "messageend" and "gate", which I thought could be the right base classes to do my timer's stuff, but I didn't have any luck.

I had already to use a workaround, because you can't select these types as base class anyway in the stereotypes editor.
I had to create an instance first, then open the properties,  and create the stereotype from there. Then it appears in the stereotype main editor, but setting a shape does not do anything on the sequence diagram  

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General Board / Timers on sequence diagrams

« on: May 10, 2007, 02:14:09 am »

Hi

I want to show timers on my sequence diagrams, controlled by a certain lifeline.

If found the notation described on http://www.sequencediagrameditor.com/uml/sequence-diagram.htm very attractive.

How can I achieve this with EA?

Thanks for your help!

Olivier

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General Board / Re: Merge elements

« on: July 18, 2007, 05:00:33 am »

I haven't tried this for sequence diagrams. So what if you first CTRL-V, re-arrange and then delete the old element?

Try it: for realistic sequence messages, it's a lot of boring work to "re-arrange"...

OK, it seems EA can not merge elements, that will be another feature request.

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General Board / Re: Merge elements

« on: July 18, 2007, 03:46:46 am »

- Now go to the diagrams where it is used; delete it (DEL) and CTRL-V the combined; arrange diagram

Thanks for the reply.

The problem is at this point. If I do it this way on a sequence diagram, it means a lot of work, since at the time I delete the old class, all the messages will get lost too...