Printing using WPF is rather straight forward,, but it requires a bit of work + in the case of BSA we need Print Control, Preview, Paper Printer, PDF Generator and Web Pages. In many modern companies they have a preference for PDF or Web pages rather than paper documents these days. I have done this…
I am keen on releasing the first BSA version because the project has been on-going for some time + I want to scale up with more developers. The first target is to have a 1.0 with modelling only released before christmas.
My property editor is a key component, so I spend a lot of time looking for ideas on how to improve this. I am “OKich” using the old property editor where you have to expand every Attribute and edit a sub-list as illustrated below, but seeing the tables I also considered allowing inline editing in the…
It exist a popular variant of UML called “SysML” (www.sysml.org) – it is close to UML2 with some variations – so why don’t we support it? The answer is very simply that BSA support what it need to generate executable code and some of the modelling techniques are not practical in that perspective. We support…
As I create tools in BSA I also use a part of BSA to create that tool. The current version is illustrated below it is a table driven application where I specify the tool, it details and properties, As I generate code I get Load/Save end editing generated – while I need to draw the…
I decided to do Precentation the easy way. I simply add a “PrecentationOf” attribute that by default is blank. The Dictionary can track multiple items with the same name, so we just add a note to classes that are a precentation of something else. And then we just use the existing property to create a…
BSA has been something I have worked on on/off for the last 3+ years, but some of the concepts has been in my head for close to 40 years. This is not the first CASE tool I build or work with. This first release will target object and data modelling – UML class and ER…
Testing and fixing bugs are part of a normal development cycle. I created a diagram of BSA itself for testing and as it re-loaded it looked good. I then moved BSASymbol and got a shock as several of the lines was linked to an invisible ghost symbol. The original lines was from the save, but…
To be able to precent classes I also need a working dictionary so I can make a reference to the original class. A first draft of the visual dictionary can be seen below. It is working well, with the exception that the “Data Model” folder get very large. The Functions folder will suffer the same,…
The small diagram below show a typical precentation issue. I have included the full BSASymbol to the left and added a “precented” BSASymbol to the right. In the precented version I drag in GID from a base object and only show “IsLink” because that is all that I want to see in the precented diagram.…