Source Directories and UML Packages

[Paolo F Cantoni]

In another topic (Packages, Namespaces & groupings I propose that one way out of the UML package being a namespace and not a folder is to provide "Grouping Only" packages below (and above) the Namespace packages.

With platform specific languages that are namespace based (such as C++, C# etc), this means that there is often an enclosing package.

At present, when you select such a package in the browser and request to Import Source Directory, the dialog retains a "sticky" value form the last time it was run.

My suggestion is to utilise the Filename attribute of the enclosing package.  If there is a value there that parses to a directory, then Import Source Directory would take the value it found there as the Root Directory for the import.  This could be controlled by a check box on the dialog

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[Paolo F Cantoni]

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Paolo

[«Midnight»]

Yes! Certainly add my vote.

This is YA good implementation effect of the Grouping Package concept.

David