Object Model Browser Version 2

Description

An object library (or type library) is a file or portion of a file that contains information about the objects associated with a particular application. This information includes the names of the objects and the names and definitions of their properties and methods, along with other information such as the symbolic constants associated with the application.

Of particular importance is the relationship between objects, often referred to as a parent-child relationship. This relationship imparts a hierarchical structure to the objects that is often referred to as an object model and provides the means to access the various objects from other applications. In particular, a reference to an object can be used to obtain a reference to the object's children.

Object Model Browser 2 is designed to provide various structured views of an object library, displaying this parent-child relationship among the objects in the library in a tree-like form. In other words, unlike other object library viewers, OMB 2 displays the object model for an object library.

The New Create Model Wizard

Version 2 of OMB incorporates a special Create Model Wizard that guides you through the steps required to construct an object model from virtually any object library. Unlike Version 1 of OMB, you are no longer restricted to only those object libraries supported by The Roman Press.

The wizard makes it easy to construct an object model by letting you:

• Choose a built-in or custom top object for the model
• Include externally referenced objects in the model
• Add special objects to emphasize event-related and control-related objects
• Add custom objects to the model
• Add custom edges to the model

Features of Object Model Browser

Some of the main features of Object Model Browser are:

• Show the selected object's properties and methods.

• Drill down an object model to any level using local view.
  
• Save and retrieve various local views of an object model.
• Sculpt a tree by changing the number of times a node is allowed to appear.
• View object origins directly on the tree. For instance, in the figure below for the DAO object model, the Database object can be obtained from its parent DBEngine using the CreateDatabase or the OpenDatabase methods.
  
• View enums and constants for an object model.
  
• Search for objects and members.
• Find all objects with a given member.
• Find all parents of a given object.
• Find all paths to a given object.