Esperanza,
The answer to your initial question as to customizing the specification
dialog for your own properties is "no". The default specification dialog
either has hardcoded tabs or it has tabs created from you property tools.
In both cases, the GUI is fixed. One could override the specification
dialog all together but that is only if you want to add a language add-in -
this is usually too extreme an answer (see help topic "Creating Custom
Specification").
The answer to your later question about where you could add your scripts is
"depends" ;-)
Basically, you can add it to the top level menu, or the context menu. The
context menu is an extreme answer and would require creating a COM server to
respond to the right mouse click (see help topic "Rational Rose Shortcut
Menu Extensibility"). The easiest answer is to add a new menu option to the
top level menu (see help topic "Extending Rational Rose Menus").
Hope this helps.
If you're interested, there's a class on this in January. Details at
http://www.rational.com/university/description/07.jsp
-----Original Message-----
From: James J. Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:46 AM
To: 'Esperanza de Leon'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: (ROSE) Customizing Model Properties
Esperanza
Comments below,
James.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esperanza de Leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:38 PM
> To: 'James J. Wagner'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: (ROSE) Customizing Model Properties
>
>
> hi james ...
>
> i'm just starting to use the rational rose. so i'll ask a
> stupid question
> like where can i run this codes?
To run a script:
Load the script into Rose (Tools/Open Script)
Run the script by:
F5, or
on the menu bar (Debugger/Go), or
in the script window clicking on the green play button
If you have an item selected that has documentation, that
documentaiton
will be displayed in a text box.
>
> and what i really wanted to do is to add a new tab in the package
> specification dialog box(the one that pops up when you right
> clicked the use
> case view). i wanted to add a tab containing an editable
> textbox, so my new
> tab will looks like that of the general tab.
Yeah... I could tell that from your mail, but I don't think there is
a way
to do that. Maybe someone else knows if there is. The closest thing I've
done is create my own "specification" window. IMO this is better (given that
you want to write scripts) because you can now provide a text box, and you
can also do things like radio buttons, toggle buttons, etc. For simple
things the property tabs are OK... but sometimes having a specification type
window is more user friendly.
>
> i used the codes below and successfully created a new tab
> where you can put
> values on the variables defined and this is not the way i
> want my tab to
> look like.
>
> can somebody enlighten me with this one?
>
> thanks again.
>
> (list Attribute_Set
>
> (object Attribute
> tool "TEST"
> name "propertyId"
> value "8091359661")
> (object Attribute
> tool "TEST"
> name "default__Category"
> value (list Attribute_Set
> (object Attribute
> tool "TEST"
> name "precondition"
> value (value Text "")
> )
> )
> )
> (object Attribute
> tool "TEST"
> name "default__UseCase"
> value (list Attribute_Set
> (object Attribute
> tool "TEST"
> name "precondition"
> value (value Text "")
> )
> )
> )
> )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James J. Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:59 PM
> To: 'Esperanza de Leon'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: (ROSE) Customizing Model Properties
>
>
>
> The following lets you pop-up your own dialog box to edit the
> documentation.
> It would be very similar to edit a property. (You'd have to
> get the property
> value and then set it rather than setting the Documentation).
> This is a
> little more involved then just adding a property to a .pty
> file, but it is
> still pretty straight-forward.
>
> To get and set property values, if you were using an
> operation, you'd use
> something like:
>
> value = operation.GetPropertyValue("toolName", "propertyName")
> result = operation.OverrideProperty("toolName", "propertyName",
> "value")
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
>
> ' A simple dialog box with a text box and
> ' an OK and Cancel button
> Begin Dialog UserDialog ,,324,232,"Untitled"
> OKButton 104,212,40,14
> CancelButton 164,212,40,14
> TextBox 8,4,300,200,.TextBox,1,"Courier New",10
> End Dialog
>
>
> Sub Main
> ' get the selected item... assuming only one
> Dim ritem As RoseItem
> Set ritem = RoseApp.CurrentModel.GetSelectedItems().GetAt(1)
>
> ' if there wasn't a selected item, then give a warning
> ' and exit
> If ritem Is Nothing Then
> MsgBox "No item selected"
> Exit Sub
> End If
>
> ' declare the dialog and set the contents of the
> ' text box to the documentation
> Dim dlog As UserDialog
> dlog.TextBox = ritem.Documentation
>
> ' now display it
> Dim result As Integer
> result = Dialog(dlog)
>
> ' if the user pushed OK, then reset the Documentation to
> ' the contents of the dialog box
> If result = -1 Then
> ritem.Documentation = dlog.TextBox
> End If
> End Sub
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Esperanza de Leon
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:05 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: (ROSE) Customizing Model Properties
> >
> >
> >
> > hi!
> >
> > i want to customize my model properties. i tried creating my
> > property file
> > (pty file) and successfully created a new tab containing
> the toolname,
> > property name and the default value. but here's my problem, i
> > wanted to
> > customize it in such a way that it would contain an editable
> > textbox, like
> > the one that appears under documentation of the general tab.
> > is it feasible?
> > does anybody know how to do it?
> >
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> > =)
> >
> >
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