We are just back from an interesting week at Embedded Technologies Conference in San Jose. Visitors to the HCL booth had the opportunity to learn about HCL RTist and HCL OneTest Embedded, two great products for developing and testing embedded and IoT applications. A fun way to learn was to play the BecomeAnRTist game. Congratulations to all winners!

Now let's look at some of the news in the new release of HCL RTist that was just released.

​Bob Peterssen
Senior Technical Writer, Rational Application Developer

Sprint 2019.27 brings an update the tree structure of UML Real Time models in the Explorer view, check the video or read further for details.

The June release of HCL RTist 10.3 comes with many improvements that are worth looking into. Let's have a brief look at some of them.

New version 1.2 of Design Room ONE is out in this sprint featuring improved Real-time support with profile versions, simplified client installation, and new command to show the Code view. See the video or keep reading for details.

​I am pleased to announce that Rational Application Developer 9.6.1.3 was released on May 14.  This release is a fix pack to resolve a shell sharing issue.

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The May release of HCL RTist is now available. As usual it contains many interesting improvements. Let's take a look at some of them.

An update of Live! (2019.19) is now available. Here’s a highlight of the new features.

The stroke thickness of Links and Shapes can now be adjusted from the toolbar:

The default stroke thickness for new Links and Shapes is 2.

You can customize how a Link routes by adding bend points and moving segments. To add a bend point, select a link and click and drag anywhere on the link to create a bend point:

You can add as many bend points as you need. To remove a bend point, click on the cross icon above it:

If you at least have two bend points, then you may also see an option to move the segment connecting them:

To move the segment, drag the handle up or down as desired, e.g.:

Whiteboard URL Links now get automatically updated when you rename the linked whiteboard. In case the linked whiteboard is deleted, then the URL Link will be marked in red.

To check out the latest version, please visit www.devops-community.com/blogs/category/design-room-live.

One of the requests we were getting from DR.ONE customers was to show C++ code specified in UML Real-time models e.g. as transition effect or state entry or exit actions. And in sprint 2019.19 this request was fulfilled by introduction of a new Code View along with other improvements in properties support for real time models. Watch this video or read further for details.