Several controls affect how many methods you can see in the method pane. The push button under the methods pane enables you to look at either public or private methods. You can filter the methods you see by controlling which categories are selected in the categories pane. You can select more than one category by either dragging the pointer across them or, while pressing the Ctrl key, clicking on them.
Another way to control the number of methods displayed is to set the inheritance. Do the following:
There are two methods named printOn:. One is
defined in Collection, the other in Object.
![]() | When you cannot find a method that you know a class understands, check the method visibility from the Methods menu. If the method is inherited, the visibility should be set to at least the superclass that actually defines the method. |