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Purpose

Use the Class Structure viewer to display and explore the inheritance relationships among all the classes in your application. (In contrast, the Class Inheritance display, accessed from the Application Explorer, presents the ancestors and inheritance relationships for a single class.) Proj-842 5.4

Starting the tool

  1. Ensure that the application to be presented is the current application, or select byrnb 2/18/10 Switch Application > Application Name to establish the application as current.
  2. Select a class in the Application Explorer. Right-click and select Class Structure from the context-menu.

Interacting with the display

The display presents classes in the application in tiers, with the ultimate base classbaseclassin the top tier, and classes which share a name prefix in separate tiers.

Notes

NoteDon't confuse this Class Structure diagram, which provides a way to explore relationships among all classes you can access, with the different but similar-looking Class Inheritance diagram, which shows the ancestor classes of a single class and the order that they are searched during rule resolution.

NoteThis display requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in.

Definitions directed inheritance, Flash player,pattern inheritance
Related topics Class hierarchy and inheritance — Concepts and terms
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