If you model and simulate behaviors using Enterprise Architect and AMUSE some Mock UIs based on Windows Forms can improve your model significantly.

How you can do that in a simple way? In that case you typically need to:

1. setup an Visual Studio Project and take care of some settings (e.g. usage of 3.5 NET); 2. develop a form; 3. compile the VS project into assembly; 4. import the form into your EA model, AMUSE reverse engineers it from the assembly and create a form class; 5. create an attribute in the class, that contains the state machine of type of reverse engineered form class; 6. connect form events with the state machine triggers; 7. initialize your form at state machine initializing phase
We recommend not import the form class directly but rather to create a wrapper class that contains only the events and methods you really need for modeling, otherwise the reverse engineered form class contains too much stuff inherited from the Form basis class. That means you have basically one more step to do.

The described procedure is not really complex and after performing it once you have a reusable template. In addition you develop and test the UI in very comfortable VS development environment.

But what if the usage of VS is not an option or you just want to perform the whole modeling using EA environment only?
– Not a problem at all . Following XMI contains a simple model including an integrated Windows Form: simple model including an integrated Windows Form
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