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How to know if OnShapeInserted was initiated by a loading process...

Hi everybody:
I would like to know if it is possible to know if it was the user how inserted the shape or it was a programmatic event (like loading the model) when overriding OnShapeInserted.

The final goal is to open a Window to ask some properties to the user to initialize the Shape/DomainElement but only when the user is doing it for the first time.

As a semi-workaround, I am firing this window if the setting are empty. But this is not exactly the same behaviour (the loading model could be incomplete).

The ideal solution should be to detect such case.

By the way, OnCreated (Shape) was removed, wasn?? it? Looking for other methods to override in Shape I only found OnShapeInserted as a good candidate for interception. I found references to OnCreate in this forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=120170&SiteID=1), however June-06 version do not expose OnCreate() anymore.

DSL Tools are finally getting very very good. Congrats to all the team!
Thanks you in advance.

Pedro J. Molina, Capgemini Spain

Pedro J. Molina

To look for the loading scenario, you can check if the transaction is marked as a serialization transaction

(Transaction.IsSerializing)

Gareth Jones - Developer - DSL Tools & Software Factories Platform [MSFT]

GarethJ - MSFT

GarethJ - MSFT wrote:
To look for the loading scenario, you can check if the transaction is marked as a serialization transaction

(Transaction.IsSerializing)

Thanks Gareth. I have tried to obtain the current transaction in the following form:

public override void OnShapeInserted()

Pedro J. Molina

My apologies Pedro - I shoudl have checked more carefully before replying.

So on closer inspection, OnShapeInserted is actually hooked to an IMS event. IMS events happen after the transaction has fired, so you won't be able to find anything out about the transaction at this time.

Here's another approach.

How about overriding MergeConfigure on your domain class instead? This will get called the first time the item is added from a merge operation (such as being dragged from the toolbox).

Gareth Jones - Developer - DSL Tools & Software Factories Platform [MSFT]

GarethJ - MSFT

Thanks Gareth. Now I got it working.

Pedro J. Molina, Capgemini Spain

Pedro J. Molina

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