the Show Features in Diagram dialog

[Pavel Bunygin]

Hello!
Does anyone know a table where EA stores info concerning attributes that were checked in  the "Show Features in Diagram" dialog?

I could find only that EA adds "AttCustom=1" to ObjectStyle of DiagramObject...

[Geert Bellekens]

Not sure, have you checked t_xref?

Geert

[Pavel Bunygin]

Not sure, have you checked t_xref?

Geert

Yes, but I wasn't able to find them here.

[qwerty]

It's listed in my Inside book chap 10.12

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[Pavel Bunygin]

It's listed in my Inside book chap 10.12

Any free help?

[qwerty]

I can't easily copy/paste since it's a table in PDF format. If you need a specific field I can tell you where to find it.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/48ki8s3hg3w6nqf/Screenshot%202013-09-26%2023.44.58.PNG

[Pavel Bunygin]

I need a field that stores this flag so I can select checked attributes:

It's  great if your book has this info.

[qwerty]

I see. Currently I haven't included that info. But I will add it.

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[edit] Obviously some new voodoo. t_diagram.styleex is amended with something like SPL=S_566CE9=0F67F5:; (for a single suppressed attribute). I'll have to find out how the coding is done.

[edit2]It appears that 566CE9 are the first bytes of the according object GUID and 0F67F5 are those of the attribute GUID.

I'll make a couple more tests. Wondering whether the first 6 bytes are enough to make it unique in all cases?! Will try to create objects with identical GUID start codes and see what happens.

[edit3] Ha! Of course it fails if the GUIDs are not unique within the first 6 chars. Admittedly the GUIDs were forced to be unique manually. Probably it is very unlikely that you have non-unique combinations of object/attribute (or operation) GUID starts. But now it's clear that EA takes always the first 6 bytes of object and attribute/operation and supplies these as colon-separated list in the SPL tag in StyleEx.

I will document that in the next release of my Inside book.

[qwerty]

The above shown Feature and Compartment Visibility has a Type compartment (which obviously only works for Port/Part). But a Port does not have the  Feature and Compartment Visibility in the context menu?! Does anyone have an idea where this option is available?

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[Pavel Bunygin]

Thank you!
But it an example of the bad design of EA architecture )))

[Geert Bellekens]

Thank you!
But it an example of the bad design of EA architecture )))

That's easy. Now try find an example of good design. That is really challenge

Geert

[qwerty]

Don't the forum rules prohibit the use of sarcasm  :-?

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