Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Fred Morcos wrote:

> So basically I am stuck with string comparison of all shapes that were
> ever created, currently existing and ever to come?
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
> > On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Fred Morcos wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to get the type of an object without using a returned
> > > string (object_get_type)? I want to loop over all the selected  
> > > objects
> > > and count the number of "connection objects" and the number of  
> > > "other
> > > normal objects" without having to go through this:
> > >
> > > (pseudo code)
> > > if (objtype == "Standard - Line" || "UML - Generalization" || "UML -
> > > Dependency" || etc...)
> >
> > Many of the "connection objects" and "normal objects" inherit from  
> > a few top
> > classes - Line, Arc, Polyline resp. Element.
> > However, not all do, and some few objects have aspects of both types
> > (Lifeline, for instance).

Maybe. What are you trying to  accomplish?

-Lars