Element sub-compartments

[Jayson]

Cheers Nabil

I have avoided the add-in route thus far because I need to "rage against the machine" in order to get access to Visual Studio.
However, I have just begun to rage and if I am successful, then I will use this as a starting point.

Thanks a bunch  

[Jayson]

Alrighty, so these sub compartments are driving me ever so "slightly" crazy!

I have pretty much copied an example out of the book and it just doesn't do what it is supposed to!

The Shape Script is as follows:

=====================
//Shape main affects the parent
  shape main
  {
        //Set the color of the parent element to red
        setfillcolor(255,0,0);
 
        //draw the parents native shape
        drawnativeshape();
  }
 
  //Shape ChildElement adds Child Compartments to the parent.
   shape ChildElement
  {
         if(HasProperty("stereotype", "part"))
         {
                SetCompartmentName("Parts");
          }
         else if(HasProperty("stereotype", "Attr"))
         {
               SetCompartmentName("Attr");
          }
          AppendCompartmentText("#NAME#");
  }
===============================

I have created a stereotype "Attr" based on class and whenever I drag this onto the stereotype that has THIS shape script, nothing happens!

The "Attr" element sits smack in the middle of the parent element, but doesn't trigger the rendering of the custom compartment.

I'm assuming that the sample script is not wrong, so can only assume I need to do something different when specifying my stereotype or dragging onto the parent.

But, what???

Thanks in advance

Jays  

[KP]

Remove the part from the diagram. EA will either show the element OR the compartment text, not both.

[Jayson]

Ah, yup that works but presents me with a new problem.
I want the user to be able to add these "things" to the parent and have it display them in a sub-compartment IMMEDIATELY without further action.

Is there any way to change the default action such that the child element appears in the compartment immediately?

Cheers :-)

[Nabil]

Hi Jason,

If you are adding the child element from code after
ChildElem.Update();
Repository.RefreshOpenDiagrams(true);

or if your adding it manually

EA_OnPostNewElement

Both will refelect the change in compartment immediately.

Thanks,
Nabil

[gloriatorios]

Its there anyway I can change the appearance of the default attributes compartment?

[qwerty]

The diagram properties offers a couple of options and the context menu Feature Visibility. Else you would need to go the Shape Script path.

q.

[Eve]

Its there anyway I can change the appearance of the default attributes compartment?

Other than the options provided, no. It can't be modified via shape scripts.

[mariolita]

I can copy the examples out of the user manual that adds a custom compartment for properties and it works.

I try to modify it for attributes or tagged values and I get zip.

[qwerty]

How do you want to modify them?

q.