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5.13. Application
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5.13. Application

Purpose - to provide the entry point when starting ArgoUML. Responsibility to start the ball rolling.

The Application is located in org.argouml.application.

The entry point is called org.argouml.application.Main.

5.13.1. What is loaded/initialized?

It all begins in org.argouml.application.Main: set up main application frame (org.argouml.ui.ProjectBrowser), the project (org.argouml.kernel.Project), numerous classes, and finally as a background thread: cognitive support (org.argouml.cognitive.Designer) and some more classes.

The ProjectBrowser initializes the menu, tool-bar, status bar and the four main areas: navigation pane (org.argouml.ui.NavigatorPane), editor pane (org.argouml.ui.MultiEditorPane), to do pane (org.argouml.cognitive.ui.ToDoPane), and details pane (org.argouml.ui.DetailsPane). Then, the actual project is set to either a read from project file or a create newly generated project.

5.13.2. Details pane

The Details pane contains several tabs: Property Panels (See Section 5.4, “Property panels”, Critics explanations and wizards (belonging to the Critics subsystem) (See Section 5.2, “Critics and other cognitive tools”), Documentation, Style, Source, Constraints (OCL constraints on the current object. See Section 5.22, “OCL”), and Tagged values.

[Warning]Warning

It is not clear in what subsystem Documentation, Style, Source, and Tagged values belong.

5.13.2.1. How do I ...?

  • ...add a tab in the Details Panel?

    Create your TabXXX class in org.argouml.uml.ui by copying from another TabYYY.java (e.g. TabSrc, TabStyle). Then register your TabXXX in org/argouml/argo.ini by adding a line giving the compass point to place the tab. Like - 

    south: 	TabXXX

  • ...remove a tab from the Details Panel?

    Remove the line for the tab from org/argouml/argo.ini.

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