MetaEdit+ User's Guide - Contents
MetaEdit+ User's Guide - Title Page
Product support
Preface
Purpose and organisation of manual
Audience
Related documentation
Usage of the manual
1 Introduction
1.1 CASE and CASE Tools
1.2 MetaEdit+ — a brief introduction
1.2.1 Multi-project
1.2.2 Multi-method
1.2.3 Multi-user: the Object Repository
1.2.4 Multi-tool
1.2.5 Multi-platform
1.2.6 Customisability
2 Information management tools
2.1 Environment management tools
2.1.1 Startup Launcher
2.1.2 Launcher
2.1.3 Options Tool
2.2 Browsers and Graph Manager
2.2.1 Type Browser
2.2.2 Graph Browser
2.2.3 Graph Manager
2.3 Generic tools
2.3.1 Property dialogs
2.3.2 Component Selection Tool
2.3.3 Info Tool
2.3.4 Text Editor
3 Editors
3.1 Diagram Editor
3.1.1 Diagrams
3.1.2 Objects
3.1.3 Relationships and Roles
3.1.4 Subgraphs
3.1.5 Viewing and formatting
3.2 Matrix Editor
3.2.1 Matrices
3.2.2 Objects
3.2.3 Relationships and Roles
3.2.4 Subgraphs
3.2.5 Viewing and formatting
3.2.6 Organising objects
3.3 Table Editor
3.3.1 Tables
3.3.2 Objects
3.3.3 Subgraphs
3.3.4 Viewing and formatting
4 Output tools
4.1 Reporting and code generation
4.1.1 Reporting
4.1.2 Documentation generation
4.1.3 Code generation
4.1.4 Report Browser: making your own reports
4.1.5 Report Definition Language
4.1.6 Syntax
4.2 Printing
4.2.1 Page Layout
5 Repository and data model
5.1 Object repository
5.1.1 Repository operations
5.1.2 Repository tools
5.1.3 Multi-user functions
5.1.4 Locks and the user-interface
5.2 Data model
5.2.1 Tool independence
5.2.2 Representation independence
5.2.3 Concepts of the data model
5.2.4 Properties and non-properties
5.2.5 Parts of the graph
5.2.6 Bindings
5.2.7 Decomposition structure
5.2.8 Explosion structure
5.3 Method integration
6 Tutorial
6.1 Example system description
6.2 Method to be followed
6.3 Designing with MetaEdit+
6.3.1 Starting MetaEdit+
6.3.2 Using the Table Editor
6.3.3 Using the Diagram Editor
6.3.4 Using the Matrix Editor
6.3.5 Running reports
6.3.6 Using the Report Browser
6.3.7 Generating code
6.3.8 Documenting designs
6.4 Summary
7 Menu reference
7.1 Startup Launcher
7.2 Launcher
7.2.1 Buttons
7.2.2 Repository
7.2.3 Browsers
7.2.4 Editors
7.2.5 Metamodel
7.2.6 Help
7.3 Type Browser
7.3.1 Buttons and pull-down lists
7.3.2 Projects pop-up menu
7.3.3 Types pop-up menu
7.3.4 Instances pop-up menu
7.4 Graph Browser
7.4.1 Buttons and pull-down menus
7.4.2 Projects pop-up menu
7.4.3 Graphs pop-up menu
7.4.4 Element pop-up menu
7.5 Graph Manager
7.5.1 Buttons
7.5.2 Graph pop-up menu
7.5.3 Element pop-up menu
7.6 Diagram Editor
7.6.1 Graph menu
7.6.2 Edit menu
7.6.3 View menu
7.6.4 Types menu
7.6.5 Help menu
7.6.6 Drawing area pop-up menu
7.6.7 Object pop-up menu
7.6.8 Multiple object pop-up menu
7.6.9 Relationship pop-up menu
7.6.10 Role pop-up menu
7.7 Matrix Editor
7.7.1 Graph menu
7.7.2 Edit menu
7.7.3 View menu
7.7.4 Types menu
7.7.5 Axis menu
7.7.6 Cell menu
7.7.7 Format menu
7.7.8 Analysis menu
7.7.9 Help menu
7.7.10 Axis pop-up menu
7.7.11 Cell pop-up menu
7.8 Table Editor
7.8.1 Graph menu
7.8.2 Edit menu
7.8.3 View menu
7.8.4 Format menu
7.8.5 Help menu
7.8.6 Table pop-up menu
7.9 Report Browser
7.9.1 Report menu
7.9.2 Edit menu
7.9.3 Help menu
7.9.4 Report box pop-up menu
7.9.5 Choice box pop-up menu
7.9.6 Editing area pop-up menu
7.10 Report Output Tool / Text Editor
7.10.1 File menu
7.10.2 Edit menu
7.10.3 Help menu
7.10.4 Pop-up menu
7.11 Fields in property dialogs
7.11.1 String and Number Fields
7.11.2 Text fields
7.11.3 Non-Property fields
7.11.4 Collection fields
8 Glossary