Property Grids

Properties on all model elements are defined in attributes and can be viewed in the Attribute panel and changed using commands in the Command window. The complete set of attributes are presented in the Attribute panel. However, they are not presented in a very user-friendly way. Furthermore, changing properties using commands may be cumbersome and can lead to incorrect model elements in case wrong values are given. In the normal user case, the Property Grid panel should be used to modify and view properties. The Property Grid presents relevant property information in a format that is suitable to view and possibly change. Information is presented with enumerations in drop-down lists and validation checks are done on inserted data.

The changes that are made is updating the definition data of the selected component and a recreate operation is triggered to get the canvas updated using the new supplied properties. The change will propagate on all instances resulting of the updated definition. If only a specific instance shall be updated the function Regroup needs to be used in beforehand, extracting the specified instances into a new definition element.