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General Board / Re: MDG Elements vs. Version control

« on: January 19, 2010, 09:00:39 pm »

Hi Geert,

thx for your answer. I will try to find the button to post it as a bug :-)

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / MDG Elements vs. Version control

« on: January 13, 2010, 06:58:11 pm »

Hi there!

We are using MDG technology to define, besides other things, elements for attributes and methods of classes. They are placed in the toolbox and then dopped by the user to add them to a class.

So far so good. Everything works as expected.

Now the problem: Our model is under version control. If now the user drops e.g. an attribute element on a class that is not locked by him EA does NOT raise any error but allows this addition. Only when he then tries to modify the atttribute afterwards with the "normal" property dialog he gets an error. But then the attribute is already added...

If he tries to add an attribute via the prop-dialog of the class, using the "attribute" dialog EA behaves correct by displaying an error "object locked" message.

Does anybody knows of this behavior?

Cheers.
   Oliver

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General Board / MDG / Disable stereotypes?

« on: December 10, 2009, 09:07:36 pm »

Hi!

We are creating our own elements, links etc. via MDG technology. There is one thing that I did not figure out so far: Can I (and if:how?) control if a stereotype is displayed for an element?

I do not want to disable it in general, but e.g. we do not want to show the stereotype for the associations we create, but for the classes.  And to allow it in general but to hide the stereotpypes individual is time consuming.

So is there a way to "disallow" this during definition of the MDG model?

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / Inheritance within profiles

« on: June 27, 2009, 01:14:20 am »

Hi!

Today I discovered the following behaviour during the creation of a stereotype: I have a metaclass that includes the options "_makeComposit" and "_defaultDiagramType" to create the diagram during object creation.

If then I directly extend to a stereotype class everything works fine: The composite diagram will be created as soon as I drop the element on a diagram.

Now I want to inherit to more than one stereotype. And, beeing a brave child of object oriented design I added first an "abstract" class that holds the common tagged values and then, from this class, inherit to multiple stereotypes.

The TVs defined in the abstract class are then in fact correct included within the derived stereotypes. But the default diagram does not work any longer. Even if I (against the description of the manual) put the two attributes in the abstract class.

I double checked it: If I extend one of the classes directly from the metaclass it works perfectly.

So how should I use the idea of generalization if suddenly the system does not behave as planned?

Currently I see no other way then to add to each single stereotype the attributes and then extending directly from the metaclass. Which is not the way a UML model in a UML tool should behave, should it?

Did I something wrong?

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / Re: See attributes in search result table

« on: October 28, 2009, 09:43:59 pm »

Hi Geert,

thanks for the script!

I did not thought that it was that kind of complex. So I would have to change the script each time my search changes...

Would be nice if the EA guys could add some dynamic to the view itself...

Oliver

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General Board / See attributes in search result table

« on: October 28, 2009, 01:38:42 am »

Hi!

Maybe I've missed a thing: But how can I see in the result table of the search dialog not only classes but the attributes?

I am searching for attributes that have a special stereotype. The search result lists only the classes that contain the attributes, but not the attributes themself.

Is there a way to configure this view?

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / MDG / Create icon for diagramtypes

« on: September 17, 2009, 09:32:30 pm »

Hi!

Does anybody know if it is possible to define icons for new diagram types? I have no problems to set new icons to my other defined elements, but how do I set an image to a diagram so that it appears in the "new diagram" dialog as well as in the browser?

Setting the "Icon" attribute does not work, neither in the metaclass nor in the stereotype.

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / Re: Transparent Shapes?

« on: June 25, 2009, 04:44:02 pm »

Yepp! That did the trick :-)

Thanks for the fast reply!

Oliver

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General Board / Transparent Shapes?

« on: June 25, 2009, 04:06:24 pm »

Hi!

Is it possible to create shapes with a transparent background? I want to create a simple shape that depicts a frame (to group elements on a screen, like radio buttons). I need it as shape because I have to add some tagged values for documentation, therefore I can not take the EA boundary.

But every shape is filled with a definite color but this is what I want to prevent because I WANT to see the background of the groundlaying element.

Any idea?

Cheers,
Oliver

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General Board / Remove (SVN) Configuration Entry

« on: October 23, 2008, 06:38:18 pm »

Hi!

I created a SVN configuration to allow version controlling of my model. Now I copied the model to use it as an training example. I therefore removed for all controlled packages the svn configuration.

And finally I deleted the configuration entry in the main dialog ("Version controll settings").

I then close the model and reopen it again. And to my astonishment I see the SVN entry in the Version control setting back again. How can I delete it permanently?

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / Re: "Bulk" Check Out possible?

« on: October 17, 2008, 08:57:10 pm »

Ok, now I got it ;-)

Thanks!

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General Board / Re: "Bulk" Check Out possible?

« on: October 17, 2008, 06:04:16 pm »

Hi Frank,

I do not understand exactly what the risk with the procedure is:

If I make an update and then lock the XML file, how can it be that behind my back a colleague can either do a checkout or checkin?  If the file was already locked by a colleague, I would not get the lock at all (just tested it today). And if I got the lock therefore every subsequent tries by others to lock the file would fail.

So regardless if I let EA use the SVN to lock the files or I do it by myself, the result should be the same: The file is locked.

Did I miss something?

Oliver

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General Board / Re: "Bulk" Check Out possible?

« on: October 16, 2008, 11:52:14 pm »

Hi,

if using at least SVN a colleague told me the trick: Stop EA. Then check out with SVN via command line (or Tortoise etc.). Then start the EA again.

The packages are then marked as unlocked. They can be edited and checked in via the EA command.

Regards,
    Oliver

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General Board / "Bulk" Check Out possible?

« on: October 06, 2008, 05:55:00 pm »

Hi!

Is there a possibility to check out more than only one version controlled package at a time? Like the "Check In Branch"?

I have to check out several packages at one time and it takes quite some time for each package. So a "Mark and Check Out" funtion would be nice.

Is there something like this and I missed it?

Cheers,
   Oliver

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General Board / Re: new class comes preset with methods and attrib

« on: October 08, 2008, 04:14:12 am »

Hi Lars,

the elements in the toolboxes can be configured (via MDG). With this one can define initial values, tagged values etc.

Could it be that you use an element from one of the "special" toolboxes?

Regards,
Oliver