The Class Browser

The Class Browser allows you to see the structure and content of the various items that you work with when creating ABL applications.

Whether you are developing with ABL or .NET classes, you can use the Class Browser's three-panel display to easily see details about all your ABL and .NET resources, packages or namespaces, and types. By default, the Class Browser displays this information for all resources, whether within a project or outside of one, in the workspace. Within a project, for r-code based on class files and Progress procedure libraries, the details the Class Browser displays are derived from the PROPATH associated with each open project in the workspace. (Directories and procedure libraries that do not have r-code classes are not displayed by the Class Browser.) For .NET classes, the details come from the assemblies that are associated with each project in the workspace. The same level of information can be displayed for external resources you add to the Class Browser.