Cinco version 0.7 released

Oct 19, 2016

After successfully using the release candidate during STRESS 2016 summer school, Cinco release version 0.7 is now available.

As usual, the installers are available in the downloads section.

Changes:

Technology:

General Changes/Addition:

new CINCO Properties view: can display hierarchic attributes (with in-MGL defined types)
Generated perspective per Cinco product
Generated “new Project” wizard per product
Generated “new model” wizard per MGL
Model and project validation with MCaM framework
Example generator now produces README.txt explaining selected features

MGL Language:

New Hooks: postAttributeValueChange, preDelete, postMove, postResize, postSelect (all use C-prefixed transformation API)
@disable annotation with comma-separated list of: create, move, resize, reconnect, select, delete
@readOnly annotation for attributes
@file annotation on EString attribute produces file selector in property view
set-based constraints for containableElements (e.g. {A,B}[1,5])
passed parameters to @style annotation can now be arbitrary EL Expressions

Advanced Prime References:

directly import MGLs to use for prime references
import with “as” to provide namespace
namespace notation for prime references ( “::” for MGLs, “.” for Ecore, “this::” for the same MGL)
Containers can be prime references
Support for multiple prime referencing nodes for same type (then produces GUI to select type)

Graphical Editor:

Style Language: