[Newbies] What do the symbols, next to methods, in the OmniBrowser system browser mean?

Rob Rothwell r.j.rothwell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 00:32:19 UTC 2008


The green plus seems to appear when you extend a class within YOUR project.
For example, if in the Object class you add a method category *myproject and
put Object>>myMethod in it, it will get a green plus...

That's all I've figured out...

Rob

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Andy Burnett <
andy.burnett at knowinnovation.com> wrote:

> I have only just started to use the OB based browser and I can't find much
> in the way of documentation.  Looking through the methods, and their
> hierarchy it seems as though the following applies:
>
>
>    - Nothing: new method in this chain, i.e. the method could exist in
>    other classes but not in this particular chain of inheritance.
>    - Upward orange triangle: method is inherited and overridden in this
>    class
>    - Downward orange triangle: method is overridden in a subclass
>    - Two orange triangles (up and down): overrides and is overridden in a
>    subclass
>    - Green up arrow: calls the same method in its super class
>    - Blue triangle: Self should not implement or subClassResponsibility
>    - Green plus: don't know, can't work this one out
>    - Red flag: has a halt message in the code
>    - Spanner: shows that the code needs to be returned to, i.e. under
>    construction
>
> So, is my understanding correct?  What does the green plus symbol mean,
> and... is there anyway to get the browser to display all the methods an
> object responds too, i.e. its fully inherited list?
>
> Cheers
> AB
>
>
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