> In the HTML document entitled "Syntactic Definitions for the
> ACEDB Data Base Manager", I learned that constructed types allow
> a recursive specification of data in models. An example of this
> is in the Paper class. There is a label called In_book whose
> type is #Paper. As constructed types are "grafted" onto the
> current class, this creates a potentially infinitely long class.
> This of course isn't a problem in terms of actual storage of data,
> as the In_book label won't exist for some paper. However,
> I was curious how xaceclient would deal with the visual
> display of the creation of a new Paper object. Maybe I'm not
> doing something correctly, but no "In_book" label comes up,
> and I checked the models file and found it there.
>> I'd like to know how this is supposed to work, since I'm writing
> a web interface to a particular installation of ACEDB and
> I'm going to have to solve the same problem.
It should work by showing the #Paper in green, rather than the places
in the model that you can add data which are in blue. When you double
click on the green #Paper cell, it will expand out into another
(empty) model, with blue places you can add data and a new green
#Paper cell that you can double click on again if neede, and so on
recursively as long as you want (but never infinitely).
I don't know why this didn't work for you - I assure you it has worked
in general for a long time. Perhaps you changed the models and did
not "Read Models" explicitly from the main window menu. Models are
not updated from scratch when you restart the program.
Richard
