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Suggestions and Requests / BUG: Selection box stays in certain case

« on: October 09, 2007, 06:48:00 am »

Is it just me, or does the selection box stay on screen if you drag it to the very bottom of diagram and then release?

Steps to reproduce:
1) create a diagram
2) click and hold left mouse button from center of the diagram screen
3) drag mouse cursor (while holding the button) to the very top of the diagram
4) release the button

Same works also for left and bottom edges. For some reason bottom shows this behaviour if you drag from right to left, but not from left to right. Other edges don't have such requirement, they always fail to hide the box.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Edit sources with EA is risky business

« on: October 04, 2007, 12:32:43 pm »

Hah, it sounds like shooting insects with a cannon I don't even have two licenses. Besides, code generation hasn't failed even once (who knows why, mayby luck). My problem is related to situation where you open the integrated source editor and edit something manually. I have already circumvented that with external text editor, but sometimes it would be nice to make very small modifications using the source code window.

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Suggestions and Requests / Edit sources with EA is risky business

« on: October 02, 2007, 09:27:16 pm »

For some unknown reason our server quite often cuts connection temporarily to shared Windows-network files. Since our intranet PHP-files reside there, it quite often also means that EA (or any other program) is temporarily unable to write changes to these files.

Other well made programs just ask different file name and/or path when error in saving occurs, but what does EA do? Well, it just loses all changes and pretend everything is OK. Actually only thing where you can tell something is wrong, is the timeout delay and the fact that the sources don't appear to the source-window before connection is good again.

For clarification.. I don't mean the EA project file which probably causes more problems, but the original source code files of the project.

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Suggestions and Requests / Editing class member notes

« on: October 03, 2007, 12:59:16 am »

If I edit notes to class members using the Project Browser and the Notes window, then there is one uncomfortable thing in the navigation: after editing the note, you'll have to click twice at the next member. Why? Because first click selects the class itself, even while you click at a member, and only the second click selects the actual member.

But I think it should select what you click. Meaning no matter what object had focus previously, clicking a member should select the member.

EDIT: Actually it's even more uncomfortable than I originally wrote. Because in reality, you cannot click twice at the desired member unless you want to show the true member list window. I mean if you click the member one time, then wait some time to prevent the double-click effect, and finally click again the member, then nothing happens. Instead you'll have to make the first click on some other member and only the second to the real target member.

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Suggestions and Requests / PHP datatypes

« on: September 27, 2007, 12:18:49 am »

Since PHP code doesn't have datatypes defined same way as normal programming languages, I think it should NOT override the datatype from diagrams on reverse engineering. Now it replaces all variable datatypes at the diagram with var, if you synchronize the model with the code. Of courses one could ask, why to even define the datatypes at the diagram, but I think it makes the diagram more simpler to read than trying to follow the associations.

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Suggestions and Requests / Behaviour under unexpected file/dbms problems

« on: September 13, 2007, 06:16:47 am »

Today I experienced it. My WLAN network disconnected itself for good while I was modeling a diagram, or more like when I had to exit the program with unsaved diagram.

The program tried to connect serveral times to the server (probably in different functions) and every time the OLEDB driver tried to ask a password. Then after few times it said that it was unable to save and that it would try to re-open the diagram from server. That made it to try serveral more connections before it finally crashed the program.

Now here is what it should have made in the situation: ask user if it is OK to quit without saving after 1-3 tries to re-connect.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Notes for attributes

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:02:22 am »

Consider alternatives consolidating these notes into the element notes

But there is no alternatives now, or is there? Separate report is granted of course, and with HTML report surfing between the diagram and the report is rather easy. But those who have to read a paper and/or pdf might appreciate the short descriptions on the diagram itself. At least I find it very easy to read the behaviour descriptions between methods due good coloring.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Notes for attributes

« on: September 11, 2007, 08:45:20 am »

Cool, that one is useful for sure. Only one little small problem, it shows the feature name with exactly same font as the note text itself. It makes those notes little bit hard to read.

Anyway, would be nice (and thus feature request) to be able to show the notes inside the class element because that is very compact way to present them. The linked notes will fill whole diagram soon if I start to descripe my attributes with that.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Notes for attributes

« on: September 11, 2007, 08:22:45 am »

Yes, there is Notes-field. But problem is, I cannot figure out how to make it visible in the diagram drawing. It only shows at the sources (and separately generated document I think). I would like it to present itself in the diagram just like the visible Behaviour text for methods.

What do you mean by linked note? Didn't find such thing from the help.

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Suggestions and Requests / Notes for attributes

« on: September 11, 2007, 05:14:10 am »

They are not visible in the class element and I cannot find a way to make them visible. Only methods can have visible notes thru the Behaviour. Actually the method Behaviour stinks too because now one has to rewrite same stuff for the Notes (XML commens in source) and for the Behaviour to have visible diagram notes.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Project Guidelines

« on: September 10, 2007, 08:45:14 am »

I just started using EA professional. I have browsed the several white papers and tutorials, in addition, also purchase the Zircom Mentor add-in for UML mentor and EA introduction.

Where did you find purchase link for the Zicom Mentor add-in? All I can find from their site is the regular version which doesn't work with EA as supposed. Also, the site and product there is dated at year 2004 which makes me belive that they don't even exist anymore..

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General Board / Re: Reverse Engineering

« on: October 03, 2007, 12:34:35 am »

Also, you may import single files from Project|Code engineering by selecting the file type you want to import.

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General Board / Re: Text editor with line positioning

« on: September 27, 2007, 08:42:57 pm »

Yea, but I think that is for the "View source code"-function rather than for the links.

And back to the line numbers.. You wouldn't know if there is a way to get the line number using the automation interface do you? I tried to search suchs property or function yesterday, but I really didn't find anything else but the filename.

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General Board / Re: Text editor with line positioning

« on: September 27, 2007, 11:46:02 am »

I guess I have to then fill a feature request for adding the proper parameter support to the Tools.

Anyway, another thing.. I tried to add a link to a PHP file at some element, but when I click launch-button it does nothing. What should I do to make it open at the text editor (with or without lines)? I mean I want to add links to some sources that have no classes and thus cannot be accessed thru the regular channels.

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General Board / Re: Text editor with line positioning

« on: September 27, 2007, 04:51:17 am »

You mean the Tools|Customize and Tools there? Where the Notepad is defined by default?

That doesn't help because you cannot pass the source code filename nor line number to the tool. For some silly reason it supports only ID/GUID/etc infos.