Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

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).

-Lars