[Newbies] Re: What do the symbols, next to methods,
in the OmniBrowser system browser mean?
Rainer Maassen
rainer.maassen at schleswig-holstein.de
Sat Sep 20 13:51:27 UTC 2008
Andy Burnett schrieb:
> 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?
Have a look to
http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/hermion/icons/
Cheers,
Rainer
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