Re: Entity Modeler.app

From: Kieran Kelleher (kieran_list..ac.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 07:53:58 EDT

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    Mike,

    Is this a branch of the built-in Entity Modeler? Is built-in going to
    stay .... or is the built-in to be eventually replaced by the
    standalone?

    Cheers, Kieran

    On Oct 17, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > For those who care about such things, the latest Entity Modeler.app
    > is up.
    > http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/Entity%20Modeler%
    > 2020071017.zip
    >
    > Changes since 20070926 build:
    > * No more File=>Exit (whoops)
    > * You can't close views anymore (you couldn't get them back after
    > doing so)
    > * Load models as a workspace job instead of blocking in the
    > foreground with a modal dialog (shows "Please wait ..." in outline
    > view while loading)
    > * Don't require that weird second click in outline view to show the
    > entity view
    > * Show VERY rough progress % while loading
    > * Fix stupid typo that was causing entity index docs tab to not appear
    > * Fix obnoxious ~10px margin that has been inside all the entity
    > modeler tabs since the beginning. Sanity = restored.
    > * make primary key icon transparent
    > * hide the parts of the create relationship dialog that don't
    > matter ... my kingdom for animated dialog resizing
    > * changing the mandatory flag on a to-one automatically changes the
    > allows-null flag on the corresponding attributes and vice versa
    > * use canonical files instead of absolute files throughout
    > * mildly sketchy fix for supporting parsing of qualifier formats
    > that even WO does not allow (and turning them into valid WO
    > qualifiers)
    > * turn boolean "true", "false", etc into 1/0 in qualifiers
    > automagically
    > * write Entity Modeler version number as model comment
    > * slightly better error messages on qualifier parse failures
    > * EOModelGroup fires model load events
    > * cleanup old listeners better + update the "Please wait..." tree
    > node to show the name of the model that is being loaded
    > * support many-to-many relationships to the same entity with the
    > relationship wizard + support single entity selection with the
    > wizard (relationship wizard is now ALWAYS used)
    > * nicer look on OS X for editors in trees and tables
    > * edit-in-place in the outline tree
    > * fix for refreshing the outline view on changes to the non-primary
    > model
    > * support for .EntityModeler.idea and .EntityModeler.eclipse
    > project manifest files for unnamed companies with insanely "great"
    > project hierarchies
    > * rendered out a hot new splash screen :)
    >
    > ms
    >



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