List of card summaries
Most of the manual tools provide means to find cards, giving some
starting point. For example, the Class browser
allows you to find cards from a PCE class; the Keyword Browser;
allows you to find cards from some keyword.
These tools display a list of card-summaries in a browser window,
normally positioned somewhere at the right side of the tool. This
browser window displays the cards line-by-line. The first character
indicates the type of the card:
B Browser (manual) tool
C PCE Class
E Example
K Keyword entry
M Method of a class
O Global PCE object (@prolog, @pce, ...)
P (Prolog) predicate
T Topic
! Error object
~ Description of a change to PCE
The next field provides the name of the card. When there is enough
space, a third field is added that provides a 40 character summary
string of the contents of the card.
When the summary field is tagged with _(+)_, the description field is
not empty. A double click will show the description field in the card
viewer.
User interface:
A summary browser indicates the selected card by inverting it. It has
the follwing user interface behaviour:
A LEFT-CLICK on a line sets the global selection of the manual to
this card. This implies the Card Viewer will display the contents
of the card. If the Card Viewer is not open, DOUBLE-LEFT-CLICK
will open it.
A RIGTH-DOWN on a card invokes a popup menu with the following
options:
SELECT Equivalent to LEFT-CLICK
FOCUS Set global focus. Currently only useful on
_Class cards_ to set the current class of the
_Class Browser_.
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SOURCE Display the source-code related to the
card (Classes, methods, variables and
resources).
SPY If the object is a method, put a Prolog
spy-point on the implementing predicate.
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TRACE When the object is a method, put a PCE
trace point on it. See also Method->trace
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RELATE Relate this card to the selection
UNRELATE Destroy relation to the selection
- See also
- - Manual Tools
- method-summary
- PCE Changes
- PCE Manual
- Predicate Browser
- Object Browser
- Example Browser
- ClassBrowser
- Card Viewer
