[great-users] Re: GREAT users meeting

[Aditya Agrawal]

> - search for patterns in which the object is NOT connected with
another 
> object (NotBound), 

[Adi]
This feature already exists in GReAT - create a connection and then
change its PatternCardinality to 0.

> - variable passing (at least int) between blocks. I think this
variable
> shouldn't be part of the source/target metamodel because it just plays

> part in the transformation. This would make it easy to automatically 
> rename objects like NAME_1, NAME_2 etc,

[Adi]
This feature also exists. You can define new classes in the crosslinks
paradigm, then you can associate these objects with either your
source/target etc... models. Having said this, I would like to add that,
there are improvements that still need to be made.

> - when I add an association class to a connector rename the src and
dst fields respectively,

[Adi]
This is a good idea and we have it in our to-do list. 
 
> - constraints (e.g.: if the configuration is not filled out or some 
> required element (e.g. objectpath) is null), 

[Adi]
I agree that these checks should be added. I would probably put these
checks in the Interpreter. 

> - bigger connector element (almost impossible to connect without
zooming), 

[Adi]
I use the same icon as the one used in GME. We could work on it though.

> - bindings could show the kind of the object passed as default (e.g.
if I
> connect a State reference with an output port the binding could show
State
> so it would be obvious what to match even if I go up in the
hierarchy).

[Adi]
This is also a good idea and I think we can implement it.

Thanks,
Adi