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Customising Papyrus appearance [message #876061]

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:36

Konstantin Ribel

Messages: 7
Registered: May 2012

Junior Member

Hello all,

is it possible to customise the appearance of Papyrus. For example the stand alone version shows classes with a yellow background by default but the plug-in version does not. It is a little bit annoying to change the appearance of an element each time you paste it into a diagram.

I am currently using Papyrus 0.8.2. Each time I add an operation to a class and specify the arguments I need to change label customisation. Is there a way to set default appearance settings?

Thanks,
Konstantin

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Re: Customising Papyrus appearance [message #876228 is a reply to message #876061]

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:33

Camille Letavernier

Messages: 952
Registered: February 2011

Senior Member

Hello Konstantin,

You can use the Papyrus preferences to specify the default appearance options for your elements.

Window -> Preferences -> Papyrus -> Diagrams

Camille

Camille Letavernier

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Re: Customising Papyrus appearance [message #876526 is a reply to message #876228]

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:22

Konstantin Ribel

Messages: 7
Registered: May 2012

Junior Member

Hello Camille,

many thanks for the tip. This way I can influence the default settings for the appearance of classes etc. But the following questions remain open.

I could not find any global settings for the appearance of operation parameters. I would like to enable the name of a parameter and disable the modifiers.
Further I could not figure out how to apply the global settings to existing diagrams. As soon as I add a new class to my diagram the global appearance applies to the new class, but the existing classes in the diagram do not get updated. Is there a simple way to change this?
Is there a way to export these settings to import them into another workspace?

Konstantin

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Re: Customising Papyrus appearance [message #878356 is a reply to message #876526]

Tue, 29 May 2012 06:23

Camille Letavernier

Messages: 952
Registered: February 2011

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Hello Konstantin,

Quote:

I could not find any global settings for the appearance of operation parameters. I would like to enable the name of a parameter and disable the modifiers.

You need to go a little deeper in the Diagram preferences, to find the "Operation" item :

Diagrams > PapyrusUMLClassDiagram Diagram > Operation

There, you can customize the default label display (Visibility, Name, Parameter Direction, Modifiers and Parameter Type)

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Further I could not figure out how to apply the global settings to existing diagrams. As soon as I add a new class to my diagram the global appearance applies to the new class, but the existing classes in the diagram do not get updated. Is there a simple way to change this?

This is currently not possible. However, in Papyrus 0.9 (Which will be released in a few weeks, with Eclipse Juno), there is a support for CSS Stylesheets, which is more powerful than the current preferences-based customization.

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Is there a way to export these settings to import them into another workspace?

Eclipse allows you to export your workspace preferences. Use "Export -> General -> Preferences", then choose "Export all" (Papyrus doesn't provide a specific category here...)

Camille

Camille Letavernier

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