Popup Menu

 

The popup menu is activated by a click on the right mouse while the cursor is located over an object.

• Toggle component view:
  switches the view of this object. In the detailed component view, you can either see the frame of this object or tree-like representation of super- and subclasses, instances, classes, and attributes of this object (see figure 4.8).
• Super classes, sub classes, classes, instances:
  for each menu item you can select whether you want to see only the explicitly defined super classes (or sub classes, etc.) or all super classes including all implicit relationships. The query to the ConceptBase server to retrieve this information will be done when you select the menu item. So, the construction of the corresponding submenu might take a few seconds.
• Incoming and outgoing attributes:
  The Graph Editor will ask the ConceptBase server for the attribute classes that apply to this object. For each attribute class, it is possible to display only explicit attributes or all attributes as above. The attribute class ``Attribute'' applies for every object and all attributes are in this class. Therefore, all explicit attributes of an object will be visible in this category. However, there will be no attributes shown in the ``All'' submenu, as it would take too much time to compute the extension of all implicit attributes.
• Add Instance, Class, SuperClass, SubClass, Attribute, Individual:
  These menu items will open the ``Create Object'' dialog where you can specify new objects that should be created in the database. Note, that these modifications are not performed directly on the database. The editor will collect all modifications and send them to the ConceptBase server when you click on the ``Commit'' button. See section 4.2.6 for more details.
• Delete object from database:
  This operation will delete the object from the database. As for the insertion of objects before, the modification will be send to the server when you click on the ``Commit'' button. Note that this operation has an effect on the database in contrast to the next operation.
• Remove object from view:
  The object will be removed from the current view. This operation has no effect on the database, i.e. the object will not be deleted from the database.
• Display in Workbench:
  This operation will load the frame of the object into the Telos editor.
• Show in new Frame:
  A new internal window (within the Graph Editor) will be shown and the selected object will be shown in the new window.