I have upgraded to the July DSL Factory and have the following errors/changes

1) Can no longer stop users resizing shapes

2) Can't create a new relationship shape (had to edit XML)

3) Can't create user types (used to use CLR attributes)

4) 2 instances of validate/validate all in menu

5) Error if adding item to validate menu

Hi foleyp

(2) is a known issue in the June/July/August bits which will be fixed in our V1 release.

Can you provide some more detail on the others please.

(1) How were you preventin this previously?

(3) Not sure wha tyou mean by "user types" here

(4) Is this in any generated deisgner or does somethign cause it - we've not seen this.

(5) I'm not sure what you mean by "adding item to validate menu"

1) In the language designer you could set a property on a concept to prevent users changing colour size etc

3) Previously you could specify an object type (other than int etc) for a concept attribute e.g. make an attribute store HTML

4) The menu I am referring to is in the designer when you right click on the diagram. I used to have code to call my validation routine but now this causes an exception. I removed my additional code and the menu has duplicate items.

Hi foleyp,

I'm afraid I'm still struggling here

(1) We used to have properties on shapes to make their colors and outlines fixed or user variable. We now disable these by default and you have to add specific properties to amek them user variable. I don't recall anything in the designer that ever allowed you to restrict sizing. You can override the following method to affect resize behavior:

public override NodeSides ResizableSides { get { return NodeSides.None; } }

(2) You can create a new external type (in the dsl explorer under types) and then assign that to a domain property.

(3) We've added standard validaiton menus, so you'd need to remove the entries you added to your CTC file that gave you a custom validation menu .

Hi foleyp

Did this get to the bottom of your questions?

Thanks you have answered nearly all my questions.

The new external type answer needs some more clarification. I take it you mean a Domain Type? What goes in the class definition to make it editable in the property box. I want a class that has an array/list of another custom type e.g.

each member of the list is of type A which has 4 members (each is a string or an enumeration).

Thanks for your help so far

Hi foleyp,

Yes, I meant DomainType.

So all a domaintype does is specify that the property is of a type defined in regular code. its then down to the standard .Net mechanisms for that class to get it to display in the property grid the way you'd want it.

This usually comes down to using attributes to set type convertor etc. You can find lots of information on this by searching MSDN/the web for topics like "Adding Design-Time support to your control"