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Setting up interfaces for generating C code (C code)
In addition to the standard Interface properties in Modeler, you can apply the «C Class» stereotype to an Interface, and then use its Tag Definitions to define C specific information.
1. If you have not done so already, add the C Profile package to your Model. How?
2. Set the standard properties of the Interface as required. Tell me more...
3. If you want to generate a Model's or Package's Interfaces in a specific order, order the Interfaces as required. Tell me more...
4. Apply the «C Class» stereotype to the Interface.
For information about applying Stereotypes to an item, see
5. Open the Interface's Property Pages, and then click the C Class tab
For information about setting the tagged value of a Tag Definition, see
6. If you want to specify a header file comment, type the text as the tagged value of the C Header File Comment tag definition.
7. If you want to specify header file #includes to files not modeled in Modeler, type the #includes text as the tagged value of the C Header Include tag definition.
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You model #includes to files modeled in Modeler through Dependencies.
8. If you want the Interface to be generated inline when used as a type, set the tagged value of the C Anonymous Item tag definition to TRUE.
9. .If the Interface is scoped to a Class and you want to specify that the Interface is a non-member, that is, the Interface is not a member of the owning item but you want it to appear in the owning item's Header file, set the tagged value of the C Non Member tag definition to TRUE.
10. If you want to specify forward declarations to structs, unions or enums, reference those Classes, Data Types, Interfaces or Type Definitions through the C Forward Declarationstag definition. If you want to specify forward declarations to items not modeled in the Model, type the text of the forward declarations as the tagged value of the C Forward Declaration Text.
11. If the Interface owns a State Diagram and you do not want to generate state machine code to implement that State Diagram, set the tagged value of the C Generate State Machine tag definition to FALSE.