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Be Sweet - a set of visual source code browsers

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A set of source code and project browsers to compliment Visual Studio.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>User Documentation</title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Introduction</h1>
<img src="images/outline.jpg" border="0" width="293" height="489" alt="outline browsers">

<h2>Mouse Gestures</h2>
The outline browsers was designed to do what you would usualy expect it to do (well, at least it works the way
I expect things to work ;) To make it short, the mouse clicks are context sensitive, meaning that a left-click on
a class will behave differently then a left-click on a method.<br>
Left-Clicking on a type (i.e. class, struct typedef etc...) will open the source file at the declaration of the type.
Left-Clicking on a method or function will open the source editor at the definition (the implementation) of the method/function
if a definition is available while a right-click will open the editor by default at the declaration of the method.

<h2>Sort Buttons</h2>
A couple of filters can be applied to the current outline to show relevant parts only
<table border="0" summary="blabla">
	<tr>
		<td nowrap bgcolor="#0099CC">Button</td>
		<td nowrap bgcolor="#0099CC">Description</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td><img src="images/public_only_a256.bmp" border="0" alt="public only button"></td>
		<td>Show public members only</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td><img src="images/no_static_a256.bmp" border="0" alt="no static button"></td>
		<td>Hide static members</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td><img src="images/no_fields_a256.bmp" border="0" alt="methods only"></td>
		<td>Hide member fields (show methods only)</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td><img src="images/sort_a256.bmp" border="0" alt="sort button"></td>
		<td>Sort by name (checked) or by access (public/protected/private)</td>
	</tr>
</table>

<h2>Properties/Options</h2>
		<td><img src="images/outlineProperties.jpg" border="0" width="507" height="334" alt="outline properties"></td>
<table border="0" summary="">
	<tr>
		<td nowrap bgcolor="#0099CC">Option</td>
		<td nowrap bgcolor="#0099CC">Description</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td nowrap>Corner</td>
		<td>Specify which corner will by used to determine the window ti be hidden when the mouse moves out of the outline browser</td>
	</tr>
	<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
		<td nowrap>Hover Time [ms]</td>
		<td>Specify the hover time here. If left empty, the "global" browser hover time will be used. Use -1 (minus one) to set the hover time to the default (windoze) system value</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td nowrap>Show Return Types</td>
		<td>Select this if you want to see the return types of methods/functions and the type of fields</td>
	</tr>
	<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
		<td nowrap>Header&Source</td>
		<td>Select this if you want to see the content of the header and the source file at the same time. If selected,
		the outline browser will also display function/types which are only visible in the "oposite" file i.e. if you select the header file foo.h which contains
		the class Foo and in  file Foo.cpp is a "local" type InvisibaleFoo declared, the InvisibleFoo will also be shown in the outline browser.</td>
	</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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