The IMCE Dynamic Scripts plugin is compatible with any edition of MagicDraw 18.0.

1. Download the MagicDraw installable resource zip file

2. Start MagicDraw

3. Invoke the toolbar menu action: Help | Resource/Plugin Manager

4. In the "Resource/Plugin Manager" dialog:

   4.1) Click the "Import" button at the bottom

   4.2) In the file chooser dialog, select the IMCE Dynamic Scripts resource zip downloaded from (1)

5. MagicDraw will show a dialog indicating the actions that will be performed after restart:

• Uninstall the previous version (if applicable)

• Install the downloaded version

6. Restart MagicDraw & Quit

7. Setup MagicDraw.imce

7.1) For Linux, MacOSX & Windows with cygwin

7.1.1) Open a linux, mac or cygwin terminal shell in MagicDraw's installation folder

7.1.2) Execute chmod 755 bin/magicdraw.imce

7.1.3) For Windows/cygwin, execute chmod 755 bin/magicdraw.imce.exe

7.1.4) Execute chmod 755 bin/magicdraw.imce.setup.sh

7.1.5) Execute bin/magicdraw.imce.setup.sh

This setup script uses the current contents of bin/magicdraw.properties to overwrite the file bin/magicdraw.imce.properties such that:

• bin/magicdraw.imce starts MagicDraw the configuration specified in bin/magicdraw.imce.properties

• bin/magicdraw.imce.exe starts MagicDraw the configuration specified in bin/magicdraw.imce.properties

• bin/magicdraw starts MagicDraw the configuration specified in bin/magicdraw.properties

• bin/magicdraw.exe starts MagicDraw the configuration specified in bin/magicdraw.properties

• On MacOSX, MagicDraw.app starts MagicDraw the configuration specified in bin/magicdraw.properties (Note: There is no MagicDraw.imce.app per se.)

7.2) For Windows systems without cygwin

7.2.1) Manually copy bin/magicdraw.properties from MagicDraw's installation folder to bin/magicdraw.imce.properties

7.2.2) Manually edit bin/magicdraw.imce.properties according to the bin/magicdraw.imce.setup.sh script:

7.2.3) Replace -D.local.config.dir.ext\=... with -Dlocal.config.dir.ext\=$IMCE_CONFIG_DIR (see the setup script for the value of $IMCE_CONFIG_DIR)

7.2.4) Prepend $IMCE_JAVA_ARGS_PREFIX to the JAVA_ARGS variable (see the setup script for the value of $IMCE_JAVA_ARGS_PREFIX)

7.2.5) Prepend $IMCE_BOOT_CLASSPATH_PREFIX to the BOOT_CLASSPATH variable (see the setup script for the value of $IMCE_BOOT_CLASSPATH_PREFIX)

7.2.6) Prepend $IMCE_CLASSPATH_PREFIX to the CLASSPATH variable (see the setup script for the value of $IMCE_CLASSPATH_PREFIX)

7.2.7) Manually add the executable permission flags to bin/magicdraw.imce.exe

1. Start MagicDraw (not the MagicDraw.imce configuration!)

2. Invoke the toolbar menu action: Help | Resource/Plugin Manager

3. In the "Resource/Plugin Manager" dialog, select the "IMCE Dynamic Scripts Plugin"

4. Click Remove

5. Quit and Restart MagicDraw (not the MagicDraw.imce configuration!)

Differences are:

2.1) local configuration directory

-Dlocal.config.dir.ext in bin/magicdraw.imce.properties vs. bin/magicdraw.properties

Note that MagicDraw uses the local configuration directory for several purposes, including but not limited to:

• environment options

• local plugins (in addition to the plugins in the installation folder)

• local templates (in addition to the templates in the installation folder)

• local reports (in addition to the reports in the installation folder)

2.2) Boot Classpath

MagicDraw.imce adds the AspectJ weaver, AspectJ runtime and Scala runtime libraries to enable the so-called load-time weaving strategy for Aspects specified in Java or Scala.

2.3) Application Classpath

MagicDraw.imce adds several third-party libraries for AspectJ, Scala, Jena and the OWL API & implementation. Although this adds a minimal overhead to the MagicDraw application startup, the significant advantage is in minimizing the startup of dynamic scripts since these libraries do not have to be loaded at each invocation.

By default, the IMCE Dynamic Script plugin scans the dynamicScripts folder in MagicDraw's installation for files with the '.dynamicScript' or '.dynamicscript' extension. Such files are interpreted as specifications of MagicDraw Dynamic Scripts.

MagicDraw Dynamic Script files outside the dynamicScripts folder must be explicitly registered as follows:

3.1) Start MagicDraw (IMCE configuration)

3.2) Invoke the toolbar menu action: Options | Environment

3.3) In the "Environment Options" dialog, select the "Dynamic Scripts Options" category in the left pane.

3.4) In the "Environment Options" dialog, select the "Dynamic Scripts Configuration Files" entry in the right pane.

3.5) Click the "..." button to the right of the entry to open a text editor dialog.

3.6) In the "List of Dynamic Scripts Configuration Files", enter fully-qualified path to one or more '.dynamicScript' or '.dynamicscript' files.

See DynamicScripts Generic DSL