CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user3165438
user3165438

Reputation: 2661

Default diagram for Toolbox

I have a custom toolbox with a foo element.

I would like the foo to be green on an class diagram and red on flow chart diagram by default.

Adding more than one stereotype to non- UML type is impossible (as far as I know).

Is it possible to create 2 toolboxes- one for class diagrams and one for flow charts, specifying the default diagram for each toolbox in the profile?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 447

Answers (2)

Uffe
Uffe

Reputation: 10514

Not quite the way you describe it.

Toolboxes don't specify which diagram they open, it's the other way around: you create a custom diagram type and associate it with a toolbox. Different custom diagrams may use the same custom toolbox.

You can create two custom diagram types, one for class ("Logical") and one for flow chart ("Activity"), but if you're only after getting the same stereotyped element (foo) to display differently in the diagrams, you don't need to.

The solution is to create a shape script for the stereotype, which checks the diagram type and changes the color accordingly. The diagram type can be queried from the shape script using the diagram.type property (for the base UML diagram type), or diagram.mdgtype (for the custom diagram type, if you've defined one). There is no need to create an Add-In, as another answer suggests, at least not in EA 11.

Check the help file under Extending UML Models -- MDG Technology SDK -- Shape Scripts -- Write Scripts -- Display Element/Connector Properties.

A simple script might look like this:

shape main {
    if (hasproperty("diagram.type", "Logical")) {
        setfillcolor(0, 255, 70);
    } else if (hasproperty("diagram.type", "Activity")) {
        setfillcolor(255, 87, 87);
    }
    drawnativeshape();
};

Upvotes: 2

qwerty_so
qwerty_so

Reputation: 36333

No. You need to have two different stereotypes. The target diagram is independent of the element. If you want the element appear different on the type of the diagram where you use it you need to adapt the shape script so it calls an add-in which detects the diagram type.

Well, writing the last sentence I would not know how to detect the diagram where the element in question is in. Needs investigation. But other than that - no solution I know of.

Edit: Since the add-in just receives the element GUID it has no way to figure out the diagram from where the call is made. Probably worth a feature request. But the time where we saw those realized in the next build are gone (since more than 10 years).

A last though: template packages. I almost never used them. Maybe they offer coloring depending on diagram/element.

Edit2: Last resort EA_OnPostNewDiagramObject. Catch that and you can get all information you need to apply the color.

Upvotes: 1

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