When you change the metaclass of a class, all of its subclasses will retain their previous metaclass. This ensures that you do not propagate changes when you do not want to. However, often you will want existing subclasses to have the same metaclass as their parents. Protégé provides an option to quickly change the metaclasses of all the classes subordinate to a given class. Note that you only have to do this once; by default, new classes use the metaclass of their direct superclass.
You can only change the metaclasses to match the metaclass of the selected class. If the selected class has :STANDARD-CLASS as its metaclass, all subclasses will lose any additional metaclass st
To do work with metaclasses, you must have added one or more metaclasses to your project, either by creating them directly, or by including a project that already has metaclasses. The screenshots in this section use the newspaper_extended project, which includes metaclass structure. You can use these structures in your own projects. See the tutorial for more information.
To change the metaclass of all existing subclasses of a given class:
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