Table, Form and Text-Based Modeling

In addition to graphical diagrams and matrices, MetaEdit+ supports modeling with tables, forms and text. The Table Editor is a tool for providing a tabular or form-based view on design information. It offers you an easy way to view your objects in a compact form, and is particularly practical for input of data in early states of development.

Table Editor supports visual modeling with domain-specific modeling languages as well as standard modeling languages via tables, forms and text.

The Table Editor supports a variety of design activities:

Components can be browsed, selected and reused with the Component Selection Tool
Connections between design information can be inspected and navigated with the Info Tool
Objects from diagrams and matrices can be viewed as tables
Objects listed in a table can be sorted with different options
Objects in a table can be exploded or decomposed to other graphs
All design information can be accessed from property dialogs with a mouse click
Models can be checked with predefined reports or your own checking reports
Designs can be published with documentation generation for the web or word processors
Code can be generated from designs into C++, Smalltalk, Java, CORBA IDL, Delphi, SQL and into other user defined languages
Language support provides help about the modeling technique, its components, reports and links to other techniques

The Table Editor has the functionality for viewing and formatting the tables:

View and hide selected columns
Automated column width setting
Support for different fonts
Export tables to ASCII (tab-separated for pasting a table into a spreadsheet) and HTML
Print tables
On-line help with graphics and hypertext features