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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Form Field navigation

Two issues here:1) ctrl left/right only jumps on whitespace. Should be able to navigate on language tokens (e.g. '::' or '.' or changes in capitalization). 2) Double-click should have rotating toggle. # all of field not word/capitalization separat...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 7 Not under consideration

Code gen should auto indent for scope

Currently if the code is at left margin in code edit view, thats how it appears in generated source. Problem is that should be INDENT spaces in based on being in function braces. Code in nested classes should be N x INDENT spaces in based on level...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration

Helper to sort

Generally having some visible organization within a context is considered a maintainability enhancer. E.g. there is a standard GNAT warning about non-alphabetical units in a scope. Theory is the IDE outline of the file should be easy to use (aplha...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 9 Not under consideration

RSART Hang when moving attributes/operations in class diagrams

Class diagrams allow the user to move attributes & operations from one class to another. If this is done (e.g. to promote an operation from a class to its parent class), the tool hangs. The Move Element dialog box is displayed and reports "Per...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

RSAR- disabling indexing fills problems view with warnings

Its legit to disable indexing, you never use code completion, or you have a big workspace and you don't want random minute long freezes as you type while it searches the big honking index. If you disable indexing on purpose, you get this warning f...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

RSART- build project with multiple active transforms enables

Does code sync on multiple unrelated projects in workspace before compiling the single project you told it to build. Turn on view 'Progress View' and you can see the names of the unrelated classes that are being code synced. Suspect that if you ha...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

RSART- Redefined operations don't propagate param changes

Problem description # in base class define an abstract operation # in derived class rename it # in base class rename abstract operation # in derived class observe operation name has changed (may also work for cut&pastes of redefined) # in base...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration

RSART- Go to Source Model Elements should do something when outside a USR block

it currently does nothing. if there is any USR block in file it should pick one (nearest, next, whatever) and go there. Mattias has the following comment: The command does something - it navigates in the Project Explorer to thenearest capsule. Of ...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration

Option to Not Validate Links during Build of a Plugin

It would be beneficial to option out of the validation of links during the build of a plugin with extremely large number of links to reduce the time to build and test a plugin with minor content changes. Link validation could be performed periodic...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 3 Not under consideration

RSART- can't multiselect, run uml->c++ transform in Project Explorer

multi-select action is very common paradigm for Eclipse, e.g. build/clean/open/close. think the transform s/be here to. currently seems to only run one/first of selected .tcs (from Model/transformations) when you right click run uml->C++ transf...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration