Tearing Off Properties

If you want to gain access to an encapsulated feature of a bean, you must tear off the property. To tear off a property:

  1. Select Tear off property from the pop-up menu of the bean with the property you want to access. Another menu appears listing all of the properties of the bean.

  2. Select the property you want to tear off. The mouse pointer is now loaded with a variable bean representing or pointing to the property you selected.

  3. Place the new bean on the free-form surface, as you would any other nonvisual bean. The torn-off property now appears as a variable bean connected to the original bean by a property-to-property connection.


Related concepts
Tearing Off Properties
Visual Composition Editor Overview

Related references
Visual Composition Editor
Pop-Up Menus for the Visual Composition Editor