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Paolo F Cantoni

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Namespace Root needs visual indicator
« on: October 05, 2006, 12:05:46 pm »
In another posting (BUG: VS MDG vs RE major incompatibility!) I made an incorrect assumption regarding the meaning of Namespace Root and its impact on Round-trip engineering via the Visual Studio MDG Link.

However, in testing the behaviour of EA, I was setting and unsetting the Namespace Root property of various packages.

When I had stopped the testing, I tried to resume normal development.  However one package proved troublesome to round-trip.  I eventually tracked it down to having inadvertently left the Namespace Root uncleared on the package.

I use the term inadvertently advisedly since EA does NOT advertise the fact that Namespace Root has been applied.  It brought home the need for a visual indication that a package has been declared a Namespace Root.

Now, if you are using the Visual Studio integration (in its current .798  implementation) then when you connect the package to a Visual Studio project the Visual Studio glyph overlays the package icon (and the package is set as a Namespace Root) - so in that case there is some advertising.  However, a more generic solution is needed, in my view.

I'm open to suggestions as to what that indication might be.

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Re: Namespace Root needs visual indicator
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2006, 12:25:13 pm »
No idea what the indicator should be, although it could be simply a modified folder icon.

Regardless, add my vote. This gets all the more important as we move forward to larger projects and more generation - with or without MDG add-ins.
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Re: Namespace Root needs visual indicator
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2006, 04:09:54 pm »
I'll support this one.  Simply changing the icon colour to red would suffice.  Surely a SMP!

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Re: Namespace Root needs visual indicator
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2006, 04:21:22 pm »
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I'll support this one.  Simply changing the icon colour to red would suffice.  Surely a SMP!

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Re: Namespace Root needs visual indicator
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2006, 07:00:06 pm »
Budgetary cuts - cant afford 4LA's :)
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Re: Namespace Root needs visual indicator
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2006, 01:00:39 pm »
add my vote
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