Displaying a Patch History for a Selected Class, Type, or Method

You can display a summary of the changes made to the current class, primitive type, or method selected in the respective:

Class List of the Class Browser
Primitive Types List of the Primitive Types Browser
Methods List of the Class Browser or Primitive Types Browser

You cannot display a patch history summary for a class, primitive type, or method unless patch versioning is enabled for your current schema or for the JADE development environment. (For details, see "Enabling or Disabling Patch Versioning", earlier in this chapter.)

To display a summary of patch version changes to the current class, primitive type, or method

Select the appropriate Show History command from the Classes, Types, or Methods menu.

The Summary of Patches window is then displayed, showing all changes to the current class, primitive type, or method in all JADE system and patch versions (sorted in descending order of time, by default). For details about using this window, see "Using the Summary of Patches Window", earlier in this chapter.

The patch history includes the method history from before the name change (until that rename entry is deleted when the number of patch entries exceeds the defined patch depth).

Only name changes made after JADE 2016.0.02 show the prior history, because existing patch data does not have the required information.

Viewing the history of the new method name includes the history for the old method name but viewing the history of the previous method name does not include the history for the new name.

As you are displaying the history for the current class, primitive type, or method only, all controls in the upper dialog area other than the Only Show Latest check box are disabled.

If you want to view only the latest change for the current class, primitive type, or method, check this control and then click the Refresh button.

For details about:

Selecting the information that is displayed in the Summary of Patches window, see "Selecting the Patch History Information Displayed for a Class, Type, or Method", in the following subsection.
Reassigning a patch history of one or more change items from one patch number to another, see "Reassigning Patch Numbers", later in this chapter.