HDMC Changes (2)

Parts and the PartManager

• Presently Parts are only created by the GUI or reading a Parts file
• Need to be able to create them by other software
• Would like to allow Parts which themselves create their own known set of component Parts
• Possibility to #include Parts file within other Parts files (saving any changes back to the relevant files)
• Requires changes to Part and PartManager classes

Modules and Composite Components

• HDMC Module class is just a generic container
• Duplicated Modules can diverge in their contents
• Would like to treat a Module (subclasses) as a single entity, so that changes propogate to all instances of it
• Also useful to have a SubModule class which can be part of a Module, but also host Registers etc.
  NB this has now been implemented.