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Is it possible to alter the model filters so they can optionally hide matching elements and show everything else? The "show inheritance" option you added recently is really useful but often I want to just hide our custom base entity (this would quickly remove a large number of lines from the diagram) Thanks, Chris |
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I've implemented a simple version of this and it will be in the 17 June nightly, available after about 1430 GMT. If you prefix a filter with !, then it will hide the specified elements instead of showing them. For example, !MyBaseObject will show everything whose name does *NOT* match "MyBaseObject". There is no menu helper for this at the moment. You can mix ! with #, for example !#sales for everything not tagged "sales". The implementation is very naive at the moment so it may not always do what you expect if you use compound filters -- let us know if the quirks prove too irksome. Note that the "Show associated" etc. filters will still show things rather than hiding them. For example, if you specify !MyBaseObject, but Show inheritance is on, then MyBaseObject will still appear because you still want to show MyDerivedObject and its inheritance graph, which includes MyBaseObject. Hope this makes sense. |
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Thanks Ivan, that makes sense so I will install the nightly when it is ready and let you know if any quirks become annoying during real-world use. Chris |
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