The editor is launched in the editor area when you open
an existing message set file using the Application Development view, or when you create a new
message set file using the New Message Set
File wizard.
Message set editor views
The
Message set editor has the following views:
- Application Development view
- The Application Development view shows a hierarchical
view of all the resources that are currently in your workspace. By
expanding the folder for a message set project, you can see the resources,
including the message set file, that this message set project contains.
- Editor view
- You edit the properties of message set in the editor area of the
Message set editor, which has a single tab, the Properties tab.
This tab provides:
- The Properties Hierarchy, which provides a hierarchy with four
basic categories: Message Set, XML
Wire Formats, Custom Wire Formats,
and Tagged/Delimited String Formats.
- The Details view, which displays the properties relating to the
currently selected level in the Properties Hierarchy.
You
select the Default message domain you require
from the read-only drop down list. When you select the domain from
the drop down list, the corresponding Supported message
domains check box is greyed out and you cannot select
it.
You can add other domains by selecting the appropriate
check boxes in Supported message domains.
There are tabs across the top of the editor area containing
the file name for each file that you have open; this enables you to
quickly switch between the open files.
- Problems view
- Each time that you save a change within a message set project,
the content is validated to ensure that the message model follows
certain rules. All informational, warning, or error, messages that
relate to the validation appear in the this view.
Properties Hierarchy functions
Right-click
in the Properties Hierarchy to display the menu items available for
the level of the hierarchy that you have currently selected:
- Undo and Redo are
available for all levels in the Properties Hierarchy and apply to
changes that you make in the Details view. To undo a change that you
have made to a message set file, but have not yet saved, click Undo.
If you undo a change, you can reinstate it by clicking Redo.
- If XML Wire Formats, Custom
Wire Formats, or Tagged/Delimited String Formats are
selected, menu items are available for adding physical format layers
to a message set file. These are Add XML Wire Format, Add
Custom Wire Format, and Add Tagged/Delimited
String Format, respectively.
- If an existing physical format is selected, the following menu
items are available for the selected physical format layer:
- Apply default physical format settings applies
the default physical format settings to the selected physical format
layer.
- Rename renames the selected physical format
layer for the message set file. Click Finish on
the displayed window to confirm the change of name.
- Delete deletes the selected physical format
layer from the message set file. Click Finish on
the displayed window to confirm the deletion.
Details view functions
You
use the Details view to define and edit global properties for the
message set, and to create and edit properties for the physical format
layers that you have added to the message set.
You create any
required documentation for a message set in the Documentation field.
Right-click in this field to display a menu of standard text editing
menu items that apply specifically to this field and that allow you
to undo changes, cut, copy, paste and delete text, and select all
the text in the field.