The CASEVision™ family of products from Silicon Graphics® provides a wide spectrum of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools, ranging from individual productivity tools to tools for managing teams of programmers.
All tools in the CASEVision product line share a common environment. The tools are UNIX®-based and run in the X Window System™ with an OSF/Motif™ user interface. They use standard Motif elements such as the File Browser (used to save and load files) and offer easily set X defaults.
The CASEVision environment also offers a comprehensive on-line help system with context-sensitive access. You can ask for the working details of any single feature within a tool, for overall information about a window or tool, or you can browse through a hierarchy of help topics.
All CASEVision tools provide access to source code through a common text editor called Source View. Source View provides a window displaying lines of text in a source code file. It can display line numbers and special annotations associated with a particular CASEVision tool., such as debugger trap icons or performance analysis metrics. Source View also offers simple text editing features and the ability to fork other text editors such as vi or gnuemacs.
Many CASEVision tools provide graphical representations of code, such as function call trees or class hierarchies. These have common features for manipulating the presentation so that you can focus on the data of specific interest or get a larger overview.
This user's guide to the CASEVision environment contains:
In text descriptions, button names, filenames, applications, variables, directory pathnames, and new terms are shown in italics. Command syntax descriptions, screen displays, and examples are shown in fixed-width font. User entries and keyboard commands are shown in bold fixed-width font.