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Themes in IBM Rational Software Architect

Using themes to make easily understood and better looking diagrams

Lidija Grahek (lgrahek@ca.ibm.com), Advisory Software Developer, IBM Canada
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Lidija Grahek is a senior software developer responsible for designing and implementing the new themes feature. Grahek joined IBM in 2006 and has worked on various features in GMF and GEF open source components, plus Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) components of the IBM Rational Software Architect solution.

Summary:  This tutorial explains theme and appearance concepts, as introduced in Version 8 of the IBM® Rational® Software Architect solution. It covers different functions that you can utilize in order to make your diagrams look better, or make them easier to read. You will learn how to use predefined themes that are included in the product, how to create your own themes, how to use appearances outside of themes, and how to share user-defined themes. In addition, you will see how you can convert existing visual style formatting into reusable appearances and themes.

Date:  12 Oct 2010
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (987 KB | 31 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial explains theme and appearance concepts, as introduced in Version 8 of the IBM® Rational® Software Architect solution.

Objectives

This tutorial covers the following topics:

  1. What is a theme?
  2. Applying a theme
  3. Creating and modifying your own theme
    1. Changing the appearance associated with an element type
    2. Adding element types to the theme definition
    3. Deleting element types from the theme definition
    4. Saving the theme
  4. Setting the default theme
  5. Using appearances outside of themes
    1. Applying an appearance
    2. Using the "Add to Appearance List" option
  6. Sharing your themes with others (export)
  7. Using themes created by others (import)

Prerequisites

All examples in this tutorial are based on a Unified Modeling Language™ (UML) model, but the same techniques can be applied to Deployment and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) models. In addition, the examples depicted in the tutorial are shown using the Rational Software Architect environment.

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