Chapter 15 Working with IDL

Reverse engineering IDL

The reverse IDL feature allows you to select several files or directories to reverse engineer. The process reverses classes and interfaces with their attributes and operations, and creates symbols of classes and interfaces in a class diagram.

For more information on how IDL objects are mapped to PowerDesigner objects, see section Designing for IDL.

Edit source

You can right-click the files to reverse engineer and select the Edit command to view the content of your files. To use this command you have to associate the file extension with an editor in the General Options\Editor dialog box.