UML Designer User's Guide
From any UML Designer browser, you can open a new browser with a selected
element or elements as the source elements; this is called
focusing. Focusing is useful for following a long series of
navigations, or getting a different view of an element (for example, opening a
Hierarchy Browser from a Relationships Browser). You can focus on any
element displayed in a browser (a source element or a target element).
There are several ways to do this:
- Double-click on an element to open the default Focus browser for that
element. (For most elements, the default is the Relationships Browser,
although for some it is different; for example, the default browser for a
Publication element is the Hierarchy Browser.) The selected element is
source element in the new browser.
- Select one or more elements and then select Focus from the
pop-up menu. This also opens the default Focus browser for the selected
elements, but this way you can include multiple elements in the Source pane of
the new browser.
- Select one or more elements and then select Open With from the
pop-up menu. A cascaded menu appears from which you can select from all
of the possible UML Designer browsers (and any applicable Smalltalk
browsers). Use this method if you want to use a browser other than the
default Focus browser (for example, if you want to open a Path Browser on a
protocol).
You can also open a new browser to display the results of following a
specified relationship. There are two ways you can browse a
relationship:
- To browse the destinations of a relationship, select a relationship and
then select Browse>Destinations from the pop-up menu.
A browser opens showing the destinations of the selected relationship in the
source pane.
- To browse the connections for the relationship, select a relationship and
then select Browse>Connections from the pop-up menu.
A browser opens showing the connections to the destination in the source
pane.
You can select connection elements for navigating, deleting, and editing
just as you can other model elements. This makes it possible to browse
and edit the properties of an association without opening a diagrammer.
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