Details in the Application Flow Diagram

Vision displays the application flow diagram and displays the following information about the application:

• The name of the application is displayed in the upper left of the window.

• The name of the frame with which you are working is highlighted. This frame is called the current frame.

• The first 14 characters of the frame's name are displayed in its box. If you are using Microsoft Windows, the top frame displays 8 characters. To see an entire frame name that is longer than 14 characters, use the MoreInfo operation of the Application Flow Diagram Editor menu.

• The frame's type is displayed inside the brackets (< >) at the bottom right of the frame's box.

• The menu item text that appears above a box represents the menu choice that calls this frame from the parent frame.

• Any status indicator—New, Changed, Custom or Error—appears in the upper right of the box. (See Frame Status.)

• The application flow diagram displays the child frames for the current frame only. The "v" expansion indicator shows you where the diagram can be expanded to show the children of the peer frames of the current frame.

• The expansion indicator ("<" for left or ">" for right) at the end of a row of peer frames indicates that there are additional peer frames that do not appear in the window.

A standard terminal screen can display three levels down and four frames across at a time. (If you have a larger screen, you can display more of the application flow diagram.) See Ways to Expand the Application Flow Diagram for instructions on displaying additional frames.

In the preceding figure, the application flow diagram shows the child of the "vieworders" frame. The "v" below its peer frame "addcustomers" indicates that this frame also has children. To view the children of "addcustomers," you must make this frame the current frame, as described below.

Also, the expansion indicator (">") above and to the right of the "Inventory" menu item indicates that there are additional peer frames at this level. Scroll horizontally to the right to view these frames.

Use the operations on the Application Flow Diagram Editor window menu to create and manipulate frames as described in this chapter. For a full list of the Application Flow Diagram Editor menu operations, see Menu Operations.