Chapter 6 Applications Menu Enhancements

Browse Application

Now allows you to select one or more applications to browse. This provides a nice intermediate step between opening the standard Applications Browser on all applications and opening an Application Browser on a single application.

Manage Application

Opens an Application Manager on the selected application.

Configure Application

Opens an Application Editions Browser on the selected application.

Locate Application

Locate the Configuration Maps that hold onto the selected application.

Refactor Application

Opens the Refactory Browser (if present) on the selected application(s).

VA Assist Pro Tools

Contains several menu items for VA Assist Pro related tools.

VA Assist Pro Tools | All Instances | Inspect

Opens an inspector on all instances of all the classes in the selected application.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find Hard Coded Strings | In Application

Opens a method browser on all methods within the selected application that contain hard coded strings. Thanks to Didier Besset.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find Hard Coded Strings | Include Subapplications

Opens a method browser on all methods within the selected application hierarchy that contain hard coded strings. Thanks to Didier Besset.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find Hard Coded Strings | Ignore $NON-NLS$/$NLS$

During a search for hard code strings, ignore any strings that have been flagged with $NON-NLS$ or $NLS$ tags.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find Hard Coded Strings | Ignore Part Names

During a search for hard code strings, ignore any strings that are used to designate part names.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find String | In Application

Opens a method browser on all methods within the selected application that contain a user specified string. This can be a very time consuming process. A progress dialog is displayed which may be cancelled at any time.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find String | Include Subapplications

Opens a method browser on all methods within the selected application hierarchy that contain a user specified string. This can be a very time consuming process. A progress dialog is displayed which may be cancelled at any time.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Find String | In System

Opens a method browser on all methods within the system that contain a user specified string. This is a very time consuming process. A progress dialog is displayed which may be cancelled at any time.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Spell Check | Application

Opens a method browser on all methods within the selected application that contain references to misspelled or missing method selectors. This can be a very time consuming process. A progress dialog is displayed which may be cancelled at any time.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Spell Check | Including Subapplications

Opens a method browser on all methods within the selected class hierarchy that contain references to misspelled or missing method selectors. This can be a very time consuming process. A progress dialog is displayed which may be cancelled at any time.

VA Assist Pro Tools | Hide/Show Source

Manage the hide/show export status of method source. For each application, the hide/show status may be set for all of its classes. The "Names | Settings | Remove Source" option must be set true for these status settings to have any effect during export.

Select All

Select all of the applications in the list (which can be painful otherwise for classes like Object). This command also selects all of the categories which makes it easy to view all of the methods defined for a class.