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More About the Organizer


When you are ready with the diagram, save everything. The diagram structure in the Organizer Window should now look like this:

Figure 71 : The resulting diagram structure

In this tutorial, you have only browsed through a minor part of the available functionality. You may for instance customize the Organizer to display the information using different view options.

What You Will Learn

Tree View

  1. Bring up the View Options dialog (see Figure 33 on page 66), click on the Vertical tree radio button and click on Apply. The Organizer window changes its presentation mode:

Figure 72 : A vertical tree structure

  1. Apply the Indented list mode again.

Expand / Collapse

You may make parts of the diagram structure invisible (and visible again) with the Expand and Collapse commands from the View menu. (Expand is available on collapsed nodes only (indicated by the small triangle), while Collapse is available on expanded nodes that have a substructure).

  1. Collapse the block GameBlock. The subtree for the block -GameBlock is reduced to the node, with a small triangle added.

Figure 73 : A collapsed node

  1. Expand the subtree again (use Expand Substructure).

Rearranging Diagrams

The Organizer lets you rearrange the order of appearance of symbols.

You can either do that with arrow keys (<Up>, <Down>, <Left> and <Right>) or with the quick buttons Move up and Move down.

Say that you want to rearrange the order of appearance of the blocks -DemonBlock and GameBlock:

  1. Select the block GameBlock.
  2. Click once on the quick button Move down, alternatively press <Shift> and type the <Down> arrow key. The result becomes:

Figure 74 : Rearranged GameBlock and DemonBlock

  1. Change back to the original order of the diagrams.

Diagram Pages

  1. In the View Options dialog, turn the Page symbols item on.
  2. Apply the options - the result becomes a list where the SDL pages are made visible.

Figure 75 : Diagram pages are displayed

Printing the System

The Organizer lets you print all diagrams that are included in the system with a single command. You may also include a table of contents:

  1. De-select all diagram symbols, or select the system diagram.
  2. Click the quick button for Print. This opens the Organizer's Print dialog.
  3. Turn the Table of contents toggle button on and click on Print to order a global printout of all SDL diagrams, including a table of contents (see Figure 76).

Figure 76 : Including a table of contents

You have now created and printed your first complete SDL system using the SDL Suite. Your next task is to check the complete system with respect to SDL syntax and semantics.


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