Reverse modeling of inheritances

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Reverse modeling of inheritances

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Graph of reverse modeling

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Reverse modeling of inheritances

Overview

Your windows or your pages use window, page or control templates, and you want to find out the dependencies between these templates? Simply perform a reverse modeling of inheritances.

A modeling of the different elements used is automatically created in the modeling editor.

How to?

Performing a reverse modeling of templates

To perform a reverse modeling of templates:

In the editor, open the requested element (page or window).
On the "Window" tab, in the "Templates" group, expand "Templates" and select "Reverse modeling of templates". The reverse modeling configuration wizard starts.
Answer the questions asked by the wizard:
- Type of reverse modeling: Graph of inheritances.
- Name of modeling that will be generated and displayed.
- Displaying the grid in the generated modeling.
- group (or not) the elements in the generated modeling.
Validate. The reverse modeling of the templates used is automatically generated and displayed.

Graph of reverse modeling

Example of reverse modeling of inheritance

Changing the level of details in the modeling

If you have chosen to generate a graph while grouping by feature, the level of details can be changed in the modeling.

To increase the level of details:

of a template: double-click the icon in the modeling.
of all templates in the graph: click in the toolbar.

To reduce the level of details:

of a template: double-click the icon in the process.
of all templates in the graph: click in the toolbar.

Example

The "Sales Management" example provided with WINDEV uses:

the mechanism of templates of templates,
window templates,
control templates,
reverse modeling of templates.