User Guide

Chapter 4

A First Look at EAGLE

4.1 The ControlPanel

The Control Panel normally appears after starting EAGLE, and this is

the program’s control center. All the files specific to EAGLE are man

aged here, and some basic settings can be made. It is similar to the famil

iar file managers used by a wide variety of applications and operating

systems. Each EAGLE file is displayed in the tree view by means of a

smallsymbol.

A context menu is opened by clicking with the mouse on an entry in the

tree view. This allows you, depending on the object, to carry out a vari

etyofactions(rename,copy,print,open,createnewetc.).

The Control Panel supports Drag&Drop. This can also be done be

tween different programs. You can, for instance, copy files, move them,

or create links on the desktop. User Language programs or script files

that are pulled with the aid of the mouse out of the Control Panel and

into an editor window are started automatically. If, for instance, you pull

aboardfilewiththemouseintotheLayoutEditor,thefileisopened.

The tree structure provides a quick overview of the libraries, Design Ru

les, User Language programs, script files, CAM jobs and projects. Spe

cial libraries, text, manufacturing and documentation files can belong to

aprojectaswellasschematicdiagramsandlayouts.

The first time it is called, the Control Panel will appear very much as

shown in the following diagram. If an object is selected in the tree view,

further relevant information is displayed in the right hand part of the

window.

Simply click on various folders and files in order to experiment with the

ControlPanel’sfacilities.