Europeans have been slightly busy lately but now that the tournament is over no doubt many people will focus on the next big event in Europe: EclipseCon! The call for paper is closing in exactly one week (Monday, 18th) so don’t procrastinate, especially when you are French and are planning to take the opportunity of a long weekend! “Why not wait until the last minute like every year?” Here are a few things to consider: the community voting is open for this conference, the sooner your talk is submitted, the more eyes will go over it and might vote for it. With already more than 129 submissions everything counts. the program committee is reviewing the proposals pretty much as they come, if we comment your proposal or ask for clarifications submitting early gives everybody more time to react. Once the deadline is over the selection phase is quite short! small is beautiful: abstracts which are “to the point” are giving clear insight into what content and structure you are pr...

Finally, with Sirius 4.0, some newly introduced components are declared fully operational. Compartments Sirius 3.1 came with the possibility to create compartments where you can group and stack your model elements. The way your data is represented is better structured and the information is easier to understand. With Sirius 3.0, it was already possible to create compartments, but we had introduced it as an “experimental” feature since some behaviors were not supported yet. Today compartments are fully operational. I18N We completed our work on the internationalization. Now the runtime strings are externalized and a dedicated mechanism exists for the odesign files.  To catch all the new features coming with Sirius 4.0 have a look to the slides of our talk at EclipseCon France! Another chance for you to join the Sirius community, SiriusCon will occur in Paris the 15th November 2016. Be sure to save the date!   Lien d'origine Auteur d'origine: Melanie Bats...

You already discovered with the previous posts that Sirius is more and more powerful. Sirius 4.0 offers more and more possibilities to our advanced users thanks to super powered APIs. API to control the tab-bar The top area of all Sirius diagram editors is filled with the tab-bar, which provides access to many operations on diagrams and their elements. From now on, Sirius provides an API to get complete control of how the tab-bar is filled: which elements to put (Sirius standard ones or custom ones) and in which order. Better integration with EMF Edit For the specifier, Sirius 4.0 comes with a better integration with EMF Edit. While it is only the beginning, Sirius is now contributing the EditingDomainServices service class, which can be referenced from any VSM. This class provides a large set of methods giving access to many useful features of the EMF Edit framework. It provides general editing domain related services and contributes all types of Item Providers, in a way that is ...

Release after release, feature after feature, the goal of the Sirius team is to provide a stable and efficient framework to our users. So as usual we worked with this goal in mind for the Sirius 4.0 release. Edges labels stability We worked on several improvements to the diagram editor to offer a better experience to the end user. For example, we improved the edge label stability. With Sirius 4.0 when you move an edge the label stays close to the edge. Improve performance on session unload The Sirius team works as well on improving performance. A significant improvement has been brought in the 4.0 release on session unload. Now Sirius will no longer spend time calling unload on the resources that will no longer be used. Thanks to this, the unload operation is now almost immediate. Note, that it is possible to customize this behavior if needed by specific resources implementations or usage contexts. To catch all the new features coming with Sirius 4.0 have a look at the slides...

To continue with the Sirius 4.0 new features serie, today we will show how we improved the user experience. Bi-directional link with editor When exploring a complex model, users frequently need to switch from the tree representation (provided by the Model Explorer) to the current diagram and vice-versa. Before Sirius 3.1, the “link with editor” option was uni-directional: selecting a model element in the Model Browser was selecting the same element in the diagram, but not the opposite. Now, this option is bi-directional: selecting a diagram element automatically selects the corresponding model element in the Model browser. Selection after tool execution For users who need to rapidly create new models and efficient representations, reducing the number of clicks is very important to improve their productivity. With Sirius 3.1, we have added the possibility to specify which elements to automatically select after a tool execution. For each kind of tool (creation, edition, navigati...