StereotypeABackgroundColor vs. Stereotype@BackgroundColor

Question

Hello,

to style different types of nodes in class diagrams (classes, abstract classes, enums, interfaces, and annotations), I found the following four skinparams to change the background color of the circles of these node types:

StereotypeABackgroundColor
StereotypeCBackgroundColor
StereotypeEBackgroundColor
StereotypeIBackgroundColor
 

I detected, that StereotypeABackgroundColor changes both abstract classes and annotations. This leads to the following questions:

• Is it a bug, that StereotypeABackgroundColor changes annotations, too?
• Is something like Stereotype@BackgroundColor missing to change annotations independent from abstract classes?
• Or is everything working as desired?

Answer 1

Thanks for the feedback, it's definitively a bug.

We cannot use @ so we introduce stereotypeNBackgroundColor in last beta :

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

You can now have:

@startuml
skinparam stereotypeABackgroundColor red
skinparam stereotypeNBackgroundColor blue

class foo1
enum foo2
annotation foo3
abstract foo4
@enduml
 

BTW, the default color for Abstract Class and Annotation is still the same (#A9DCDF)

I think that we should use a different default color for annotation. Any suggestion ? Thanks

Comments

Thanks a lot for the fast fix and stereotypeNBackgroundColor as new feature! Works fine for me.

Yes, the default color for annotations should be different: What about #E3664A? The light red is a bit stronger than the light red for enumerations (#EB937F).

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Hello all,

It seems there is a bug with skinparam, but now use style...

Here is now an example by style:

@startuml
'skinparam stereotypeABackgroundColor red
'skinparam stereotypeNBackgroundColor blue

<style>
spotAbstractClass {
  BackgroundColor red
}
spotAnnotation {
  BackgroundColor blue
}
</style>

class foo1
enum foo2
annotation foo3
abstract foo4
@enduml

If that can help,
(I will plan to adding this on the doc...)
Regards.