The example in the following diagram shows the composite views of a versioned schema and both the current and the latest context Class Browsers.
In this diagram, skins have been specified in the Miscellaneous sheet (latest version) and Window sheet (current version) of the Preferences dialog to easily identify the Class Browser of the current and latest version contexts.
You can toggle the display of the composite view and a selected version only view, by selecting the Show Composite View command from the View menu. For details, see "Displaying a Composite View of Versioned Objects", in the following section.
In a browser of a versioned schema:
Method, property, and constant elements display an icon appropriate to their access rights (that is, a lock for protected elements, glasses for read-only elements, and a green person for public elements). These symbols and the View menu commands that you can select to hide or display these icons in the current browser are listed in the following table.
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Property, method, or constant is public | Show Public |
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Property or method is protected | Show Protected |
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Property is read-only | Show Read Only |
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Property is a key | Not applicable |
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Method contains one or more compilation errors | Toggling not applicable to method error display |
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Entity in the Methods List is a condition | Conditions |
If a method, property, or constant is versioned, the left arrow or right arrow is superimposed onto the icon to indicate the version of that element; that is, a left arrow indicates the current version and the right arrow indicates the latest (uncommitted) version.
If you have a browser open against the current version of the schema, all icons are unadorned or they have a superimposed left arrow that indicates that the method or property is versioned.
If you have a browser open against the latest version of the schema, all icons are unadorned or they have a superimposed right arrow that indicates that the method or property is versioned.
The current version icon indicates the element with which the system is currently running and the latest version icon indicates the latest (uncommitted) version of that element.
When a skin is applied to the latest version (on the Miscellaneous sheet of the Preferences dialog), right arrows at the right of the title bar indicate that the window is that of the latest (uncommitted) version. Conversely, when a skin is applied to the current version (on the Window sheet of the Preferences dialog), left arrows at the right of the title bar indicate that the window is that of the current (committed) version.
Browsers can display a composite view, which shows:
Any versioned class is highlighted with the user-defined versioned background color, which is light green by default. The same background color is applied to the latest version of any method, property, or class constant.
Both versions of any versioned method, property, or class constant.
In the current version context, methods, properties, or constants that have been added to the latest version context.
To provide additional feedback in the current version context, foreground colors in the browsers indicate one of three versioning states, as follows.
Changed color (which defaults to orange) indicates that a property or class constant has changed between the current and latest version.
Added color (which defaults to pink) indicates a new method, property, or constant added to current context.
Removed color (which defaults to gray) indicates a method, property, or class constant that exists in the current schema context and that has been removed from the latest schema context. This element is removed from the current schema when the class is next reorganized.
You can change the version display foreground and background colors, by using the Window sheet of the Preferences dialog, accessed from the Preferences command in the Options menu of browse windows. (For details, see "
