FANCY (File ANd Class displaY)

Fancy lets you browse through the files, functions, classes and methods used in the source text of the application using a hypertext-like interface.

The main FANCY window consists of selection boxes for the pc++ language objects: files, functions, classes (including collections), and methods.

Click on Grid in the class portion of the window.

After a pause while it loads browsing information from the Object Manager you get a list of methods in the class Grid. You can click a method to browse its definition.

Click on LocalBroadcast method.

The FANCY file viewer appears with the selected method highlighted.

[Fancy]

You can browse around the source code as if it were hyper-linked. For example, in the LocalBroadcast member function that we just highlighted, we can click on the highlighted ElemIndex function call to view the definition of ElemIndex .

Click on the highlighted call to ElemIndex in the source code.

You can click on the greyed out areas to highlight the source of each function or class. You can also hit the Back button to take you back to the previously browsed functions or classes.

Next, we start CLASSY from FANCY's Tools menu, leaving FANCY running.

Sameer Shende <sameer@cs.uoregon.edu>