[Uml-devel] u2 gets functionality

[Stephen Torri]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 18:00, Andrew Sutton wrote:
> hehe. well, not really.
> 
> i've basically finished the refactoring to kparts/plugins and brought all the 
> old functionality back on line. the plugin load protocol is now the plugin 
> init protocol (it works the same way). metamodels are still parsed, creating 
> an enormous object model in the background (fun stuff), blah blah blah.
> 
> i've also added some candy to the menu - basically, the uml plugin now creates 
> a "UML" menu in the menu bar. two options underneath allow the management of 
> profiles (containers of stereotypes) and stereotypes in the active model. i'm 
> not sure how these are being managed yet. the data in the profile is added at 
> the code level. this won't be the case for too long i hope.
> 
> at some point, i'm thinking that at some point the profile editor is going to 
> get the capability to create stereotypes and export them as model files. this 
> is the mechanism i'm planning on using to create the stereotypes for UML 
> itself. these xmi files can be loaded by the uml plugin or whatever... it 
> should work nicely.
> 
> the stereotype editor corresponds to all the stereotypes available in the 
> current model. that means that the menu needs to be tied into the model 
> somehow. it shouldn't be too hard. the UML::Stereotype_Class class supports 
> an refAllOfClass() method that returns all instances of stereotypes so we 
> could populate with that. hmm... good data management question here: how we 
> distinguish between loaded stereotypes and those created specifically for the 
> model? for later consideration...
> 
> any way, there's a screenshot of the profile dialog on my web site. the 
> checkboxes indicate whether or not the user wants to import that information 
> into his/her model.
> 
> http://trident.cs.kent.edu/~asutton/umbrello2

I must be special. The link is broken for me.

Stephen
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Stephen Torri <storri at sbcglobal.net>
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