Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

["Fred Morcos" <fred morcos gmail com>]

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).
>
> -Lars
>
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