You can
Open the selected graph, binding or property
from its pop-up menu in the Changes tree. This lets you see the element in its
current context and inspect its current state as normal. If the selection is a
Graph that has a diagram,
Open will not only open the current diagram,
but also highlight the elements that had changes in that transaction. In the
example in
Figure 3–51, the
Laptime object, its Action, and their relationships have been added. The Down
button and the sysTime, startTime and stopTime variables have been reused by
adding new representations for them, and since Ignore representations is on,
they are not highlighted. Note that a change anywhere within an object or
binding highlights the whole object or binding. As elsewhere, the red
highlighting will remain visible until you change the selection in the Diagram
Editor.
Figure 3–51. Open a changed graph, highlighting changes.
Note
that, as with the names displayed in the tree, the information is taken from the
current state of the repository: the old versions do not exist as separate
copies of every object etc. Elements no longer present in the current diagram
thus cannot be highlighted. For many cases,
Open thus gives a quick,
intuitive, graphical overview of what has changed, shown in the context of the
current state of the model. For the full details, you can use
Compare
(Section
3.4.2).