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7.3 Type Browser

7.3.1 Buttons and pull-down lists

The Type Browser has two buttons and two pull-down menus:

Help opens the online manual showing instructions about the use of the Type Browser.

Load More Repository attempts to load more design information from the repository.

The Default pull-down list allows you to select the project in which new graphs will be stored.

The Show pull-down list allows you to select types (graphs, objects, relationships, roles, properties) to be shown in the middle list of the browser.

7.3.2 Projects pop-up menu

Open... allows you to select projects to be viewed and managed in browsers and in other tools of the MetaEdit+ client.

Close... closes the selected project and its models from the MetaEdit+ client.

New... creates a new project in which new models can be added.

7.3.3 Types pop-up menu

Create Graph... makes a new graph of the selected type, but does not open a representation for it. (Only available if graph types are being shown.)

Edit Type opens the metamodelling editor on the type specification. In non-Method Workbench versions of MetaEdit+ you can only view the specifications and modify the symbols and dialogs.

Type Info opens an Info tool for the selected type, showing which types use it, and which types it uses.

Remove Type... marks the type as deleted: it can still be retrieved with Salvage Types....

Salvage Types... asks which of the removed types should be returned to use.

Hide/Show Hierarchy lets you hide or show the inheritance structure of types.

7.3.4 Instances pop-up menu

The instance list has three pop-up menus depending on what kind of type is selected.

If the type is a Graph type the pop-up menu looks like this:

Open starts an editor on the graph according to the available representation. If multiple representations exist the tool lets you choose among them.

Open as Diagram... opens the graph in a Diagram Editor.

Open as Matrix... opens the graph in a Matrix Editor.

Open as Table... opens the graph in a Table Editor.

Graph Browser opens the Graph Browser for the selected graph.

Reports is a submenu that lets you:

Run... available reports
Create new report definitions or modify existing ones in a Report Browser.

Properties... opens a dialog for editing the properties of the graph.

Info opens an Info Tool for viewing reuse, linkages, and locking of the elements.

Delete Graph allows you to remove the selected graph.

Delete Representation... opens a dialog that lets you remove one or more representations of the selected graph.

The second kind of pop-up menu is available to types other than graph and property (i.e. to object, relationship and role). This menu only has two selections:

Properties... opens a property dialog for the selected element letting you view and edit information about the element.

Info opens an Info Tool for viewing reuse of the element among different graphs and their representations.

If the list is showing Property types, the menu only contains Info.

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