The menus (and the commands in menus) that are displayed at any time depend on the type of browser window that is currently displayed. For example, the Status List command is available from the Browse menu in the Class, Primitive Types, Interface, and Schema Browsers.
Menu commands that are not available for selection are disabled (dimmed).
There are faster ways of accessing functions; for example, popup menus or toolbar buttons for frequently used functions. (You can use the Esc key to cancel the display of popup menus.)
To access a menu
Click the required menu.
A drop-down list is then displayed, showing the commands that are available in the selected menu.
The JADE development environment menus are listed in the following table.
| Menu | Description |
|---|---|
| Ad Hoc Indexes | ODBC query indexes suitable for optimizing ad hoc queries without requiring database reorganization (for details, see "Maintaining Ad Hoc Indexes", in Chapter 9) |
| Application | Browses and maintains your schema applications |
| Breakpoints | Maintains debugger breakpoints |
| Browse | Browsing functions; for example, viewing breakpoints or changed methods |
| Categories | Browses and maintains global constant categories |
| Classes | Browses and maintains your schema classes |
| Components | Browses and maintains ActiveX control, ActiveX automation, and .NET external object libraries |
| Conditions | Browses and maintains your class conditions |
| Constants | Browses and maintains your class, primitive type, interface, and global constants |
| Consumer | Maintains your Web service consumers (for details, see " |
| Databases | Administers external database schemas |
| Deltas | Browses and maintains change control deltas |
| Edit | Editing functions; for example, copy or search functions |
| Exposure | Maintains JADE objects exported through a C# class library or a Web service (for details, see Chapter 16 or Chapter 17 in this document, or " |
| File | Administers a JADE development database |
| Functions | Browses and maintains external functions |
| Help | Accesses the standard Common User Access (CUA) help options |
| History | Displays or clears a history of the last method, property, and type entities accessed from the browser |
| HTML | Browses and maintains your HTML documents |
| Interfaces | Browses and maintains interfaces |
| Jade | Executes JADE methods or tests code units, debugs all of or a selected portion of a Workspace window or a JadeScript method, or accesses the Schema Browser |
| Library | Browses and maintains your JADE libraries |
| MapFiles | Browses and maintains your class map files |
| Methods | Browses and maintains your class, primitive type, and interface methods |
| Methods Viewer | Browses and maintains customized methods browsers displaying only the required methods from any class in any schema (for details, see "Using Method Views to Bookmark Workflows", in Chapter 13) |
| Options | Maintains your global options for the schema and all subschemas |
| Packages | Browses and maintains your export and import packages (for details, see Chapter 8, " |
| Properties | Browses and maintains your class properties |
| Relational | Browses and maintains your relational views and RPS mappings |
| Schema | Browses and maintains your schemas |
| Server | Browses and maintains JADE Object Manager servers, both local and remote |
| Types | Browses and maintains primitive types |
| View | Provides different ways of looking at your Browser windows |
| Views | Browses and maintains your schema views |
| Window | Arranges and manipulates child windows in an MDI JADE application |
For details about Painter menus, see "Painter Menus", in Chapter 5.