This shows 3 diagrams with circles being printed. I have only modified the Ellipse symbol to support printing so far and it works well with a few comments. (1) Colors on the symbol need a white paper version. (2) printing is 1:1 in size, I need to zoom and I have a path, but I…
I managed to actually draw some objects on a preview page that I also can print. This is a good start and I will soon have the diagrams printed on paper.
WPF have a very simple way of printing what they call a “Visual”, basically it print what you see on the screen, so to use this you need a UserControl. I loadet the diagram below and tested the PrintVisual statement. I have a Brother DCP-9015 color laser that also has it’s own preview system and…
Documentation is a vital part of any project since we need to make presentations of our work on regular bases. Managers/Users who pay for your time will like to be kept informed and have a saying in what you do and this takes time, so lets attempt to automate it. Most engineers would love to…
It is quite easy to use a tree compont to add content and BSA itself to edit that content as a WYSIWYG document to create tailored reports that is automated according to a document specification. Later I generate an XPS document and print it – skip the Preview and use BSA Canvas directly. This is…
Printing using WPF is rather straight forward,, but it requires a bit of work + in the case of BSA we need Print Control, Preview, Paper Printer, PDF Generator and Web Pages. In many modern companies they have a preference for PDF or Web pages rather than paper documents these days. I have done this…
I am keen on releasing the first BSA version because the project has been on-going for some time + I want to scale up with more developers. The first target is to have a 1.0 with modelling only released before christmas.
My property editor is a key component, so I spend a lot of time looking for ideas on how to improve this. I am “OKich” using the old property editor where you have to expand every Attribute and edit a sub-list as illustrated below, but seeing the tables I also considered allowing inline editing in the…
It exist a popular variant of UML called “SysML” (www.sysml.org) – it is close to UML2 with some variations – so why don’t we support it? The answer is very simply that BSA support what it need to generate executable code and some of the modelling techniques are not practical in that perspective. We support…
As I create tools in BSA I also use a part of BSA to create that tool. The current version is illustrated below it is a table driven application where I specify the tool, it details and properties, As I generate code I get Load/Save end editing generated – while I need to draw the…