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file:///C:/uml/BOUML/bouml_3.0/doc/TOUT.html214 of 378 07/10/2007 15:55NodeNodes are used to specify how the deployment is made, a node may represent a CPU, a device etc ...A node may be created through the new node entry of a deployment view or through the component button of a deployment diagram.MenusThe node menu appearing with a right mouse click on its representation in the browser is something like these, supposing the node notread-only nor deleted (see also menu in a diagram) :Menu : editedit allows to show/modify the node properties. In case the node is read-only, the fields of the dialog are also read-only.Node dialog, tab UmlThe tab Uml is a global tab, independent of the language :The proposed stereotypes are the default one specified through the Default stereotypes dialog more the current one (empty here). It ispossible to choose into the list or to give a new one, or to empty it.Theeditorbutton visible above and associated here to the description, allows to edit the description in an other window, or to call an external edito(for instance Xcoral) specified through the environment variable BOUML_EDITOR. Note that this external editor have to create an ownwindow, its parameter is the pathname of the file containing the description, its execution is done in parallel with BOUML which lookeach second at the file contents to get the new definition until the dialog is closed (I do not like very much this polling but this works evenQT isn't compiled with the thread support).Menu : deleteThe menu entry delete is only present when the node is not read-only.Delete the node and all its representation in the opened diagrams. After that it is possible to undelete it (from the browser) until you clos