SDL (Specification and Description Language) was at one point considered as a UML diagram add-on, but UML went in a different direction. I am used to SDL from Telecom and use an abstracted version (simplified) because I liked the state engine concept added to normal flow charts – so why did I bother with UML…
Changing UML State is straight forward – just use ToolMake to add a new property and change the default settings + a few lines of code to add the header change I also added. This is a compromise on my earlier Connection Point – I decided to change the default to Free and implement Free…
I wanted to draw some simple, high level UML State diagrams using PLD and while it worked I also used far more time than I expected. This was in many ways a big failure with regards to the objectives I have set, so I need to do some re-thinking. In this first diagram I use…
The UML State Diagram below illustrates an Actuator that regulate on Position, Speed and Torque, but is input data here Events, Data or both? Also the diagram show event name three times. In this case the gray names should be hidden as the Start Terminal carry the event name. I am not sure I need…
BSA uses the terminology “Module” for an independent sub-project that can be anything you want from a Windows executable, to library or Embedded Image. The content is up to the developer. I just added a menu to create new modules and I am not 100% sure about the result in the visual dictionary. I lack…
In my first clipboard example I borrowed some code that copied a UserControl “as is” to the clipboard. If you study that code you will notice that it performs two steps: Create a bitmap from a UI Control Copy Bitmap to Clipboard As the Canvas I use is dark theme background and the UserControl have…
The Property Editor is great and almost work as an inline editor, but as I work with visual content line names and text I keep looking at the diagram as I type, not at the Property Editor so adding a full inline editor is on my list of ToDo. Inline editing is straight forward as…
I wanted to add a simple Ctrl+C to copy a diagram to clipboard and as with printing I found an option to copy a UserControl “as is” with a few lines of code. The result is not exactly great, but it makes me think I should be able to do this more controlled rather easy.…
It is nice to finally use BSA’s modeling capabilities on projects myself. I actually use it to reverse engineer a large PLC project written in Siemens SCL, as well as using it on BSA. Commercial tools in acceptable price range simply don’t have the precentation capabilities that I need + using BSA myself I also…
At one point I implemented a “document” – basically a tree with all the content in the diagrams and details about each object. You can see an example at left below. As the project grows, so does this tree and the full tree start to take time loading as this is based on a standard…