I'd like to know about the concept "Submap Parent Submap ID".
This ID is seen in the output of "ovmapdump -v" command as one of
the attributes of submap, but it cannot be seen in OVwSubmapInfo
sturucture in "ovw.h".
From my point of view, parent submap seems to be set to the one where
the first symbol of its parent object is drawn.
For example, please assume an object "A" is associate with 3 symbols,
"A1", "A2" and "A3". Also please assume double clicking "A1","A2",and
"A3" drive us to the same submap.
submap1 submap2 submap3
+----+ +----+ +----+
| A1 | | A2 | | A3 |
+-.--+ +-|--+ +----+
| v
| +----+
+------->| a |
+----+
submap4: Child submap of Object"A"
But from the "submap4", we can only return to the submap1 by the
context menu "Parent Submap" function, if "A1" is drawn earlier
than "A2" and "A3".
Q1. Is my assumption correct?
Q2. Is there any idea to modify "submap parent submap ID" of one
submap? I deeply hope we don't have to care about the order to
create symbols for one object... Because it causes slight change
to one customer's application.
ANSWER
You can change the parent symbol for a submap by using the
Edit->Modify/Describe->Submap option from the menu bar. Which of
several possible symbols is the initial parent symbol depends, as you
say, on the order in which they are created.
As far as I can see there is no way to modify the mapping from a program.
The problem of each submap having only one parent *object*, which can
be represented by multiple *symbols* is being addressed in the
next release of NV for AIX. In that release, the "parentage" of a
submap is dependent on how you reached it (that is, in your case if
you double-clicked A2 to reach submap 4, "Show Parent" would take you
back to submap 2, not submap 1.
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