Preprocessor directives for specification files

The #ifndef and #endif preprocessor directives check whether a symbol is defined for the element being specified. If the symbol is not already defined for the element, Rhapsody® defines one. For example, a Display_H symbol is defined for the Display package.

A matching #endif is generated at the end of the specification file.

The file lists the necessary include files for the project, including the appropriate framework (oxf) header file for the language. For example, for the Ada language, the following header file is included:

#include <oxf/Ric.h>

This file is located in the Share\C\oxf directory for Ada framework files. The Ric.h file defines certain tracer and animation symbols and includes the remaining C framework files, which provide predefined behaviors for real‑time constructs such as events, event and message queues, tasks, and timers.

To specify additional include directives for header files, use the C_CG::Class::SpecIncludes property.

For example, if the element has dependencies to reference packages or other modules that are not part of the Rhapsody design, add the necessary include files to this property.

If the element being specified is a package, it defines symbols for the events in the package.

The event symbol name has the following format:

<event>_<package>_id <ID number>

Each event has an ID number, starting with one. Event ID numbers increment based on the order in which events were added to the model during design time. They have nothing to do with the order in which events are displayed in the browser.

For example, if the Foobar package contained an evStart event, the following event symbol would be defined:

#define evStart_Foobar_id 1