Hi all,

Ovidiu Gheorghies has sent to me an intermediate-release yesterday, I'll
test it and if same problems occur I'll try to modify the metauml
structure by myself in interaction with Ovidiu (according th Hans's advice).

I'll do that as soon as I have the time... ;)

Cheers,

Renaud


Hans Hagen a écrit :

>Renaud AUBIN wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Hans,
>>
>>The example with clearboxes's crash:
>>    
>>
>this is probably due to the fact that clearboxes hooks into endfig
>
>
>\setupoutput[pdftex]
>
>\starttext
>
>\startMPinclusions
> input boxes;
>\stopMPinclusions
>
>\startuseMPgraphic{my_uml_figure}
>input metauml;
>
>Class.A("Point")
>       ("+x: int",
>        "+y: int") ();
>
>Class.B("Circle")
>       ("radius: int")
>       ("+getRadius(): int",
>        "+setRadius(r: int):void");
>
>topToBottom(45)(A, B);
>
>drawObjects(A, B);
>
>clink(aggregationUni)(A, B);
>\stopuseMPgraphic
>
>\placefigure[here]{none}{\useMPgraphic{my_uml_figure}}
>
>\stoptext
>
>this only works when in boxes.mp, we have:
>
>extra_beginfig := extra_beginfig
>  & "boxjoin();save pic_,sproc_,pproc_;def clearboxes=enddef;";
>extra_endfig := extra_endfig & " clearboxes";
>
>(space added before clearboxes in string)
>
>(maybe i should clean up boxes.mp and preload that in metafun if only i 
>know what it's meant for)
>
>i suggest that you contact the author of metauml:
>
>- rename the util_* files into metauml_util_* in order to prevent 
>clashes with other util_* files
>- load all files into the main file, so that you get rid of the 
>redundant file reads (loading  quits when the files are already 
>loaded,but best do some testing before they are input)
>- provide a metauml_preload.mp file that preloads e.g. boxes.mp so that 
>you can do
>
>\startMPinclusions
> input metauml_preload;
>\stopMPinclusions
>
>\startuseMPgraphic{my_uml_figure}
>input metauml;
>\stopuseMPgraphic
>
>- provide "load_metauml" that loads once only, so that you can do
>
>\startMPinclusions
> input metauml_preload;
>\stopMPinclusions
>
>\startuseMPgraphic{my_uml_figure}
>load_metauml;
>\stopuseMPgraphic
>
>\startuseMPgraphic{my_second_uml_figure}
>load_metauml;
>\stopuseMPgraphic
>
>and get only one load when you collect graphics instead of runtime 
>processing
>
>Hans
>
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