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The “TopCased Modeling” perspective

Modeling with Polychrony under Eclipse is easier by selecting the Topcased Modeling perspective : a perspective is a particular configuration of Eclipse environment that consists of customized views, shortcuts and popup menus.

To activate the Topcased Modeling perspective, select Window-> Open Perspective-> Other...


and select the Topcased Modeling perspective :


The Topcased Modeling perspective can be divided in 4 main part:

  1. The Navigator view lists all projects located in the Eclipse workspace. It allows to create new projects and new TopCased Diagrams.
  2. The Outline view lists all model objects of the edited diagrams or of the edited model file. If there are several diagrams in the edited diagram file, they are listed at the end of the model object list.
  3. The Editor view displays the main window for the edited Model File and edited TopCased Diagram. For an edited TopCased Diagram, the left of this view is dedicated to the palette of the graphical object that can be dragged/dropped into the Diagram part. One can also drag an element from the Outline view to the Diagram part, and if there is a graphical element which corresponds to this model object for the displayed diagram, it will be added.
  4. The Property view displays the lists of properties of the model object selected in the Outline view and/or in the Diagram view. Some of the properties can be modified and others are just read-only information.

Remark: when you delete a graphical element from a diagram, you have two different methods:



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