View

Typical view of the Code Navigator for C++ main screen while editing a class method:

This main screen is broken into three areas that keep a lot of information handy at your fingertips:

* The left pane or navigational view shows the big picture. It presents the entire repository in one of several different forms. For example, the screen above shows the repository's physical structure: classes and functions within modules (*.h/*.cpp file pairs), modules within projects, and projects within the shared, multi-user repository.

* The right pane shows more detail for whatever is selected in the left pane. Several detail views are available, including a full tree of the selected item of code and its contents (illustrated above), an interface (.h) file fragment, an implementation (.cpp) file fragment, or a formatted report describing the selected code.

* The bottom pane allows visually editing whatever is selected in the upper panes (as illustrated), provides a means for selecting a report to view, shows a history of changes to an item of code, allows intelligent searching in the attributes of selected code, or provides a control center for the application of custom code patterns - automated implementations of software analysis patterns, design patterns, or idioms.