C and C++ SoftBench User's Guide

Using SoftBench
Managing Your SoftBench Environment
Chapter 278
Managing Your SoftBench Environment
SoftBench provides several ways to customize your environment. In
general, customizations are located on the "View" and "Options" menus.
The "Options" menu lets you tailor SoftBench's behavior to meet your
needs. For example, you can:
• change the tool icons displayed on the toolbar
• set tool preferences
• change where SoftBench looks for projects
• customize build behavior
• set behavior of current project when opening a new project
• set language preferences (requires restarting SoftBench to take
effect)
The "View" menu lets you tailor SoftBench's appearance. You can:
• refresh the Files view, which updates the status of the file icons
• show or hide the toolbar
• show or hide the target graph
• show or hide the local workspace root
The Custom menu allows you to create your own commands on the
SoftBench toolface. You can add entries under the Custom menu, and
have those entries available on all tool menu bars ("System" commands),
or on all instances of a specific tool class ("User" commands). Any
command that could be entered at a shell prompt can be launched from
the Custom menu. (See SoftBench Online Help on the "Custom" menu for
information on customizing SoftBench menus.)
This feature is especially useful if you need to run a command within the
SoftBench environment. Commands launched from the Custom menu
inherit the full SoftBench environment, including environment
variables. See "SoftBench Environment Variables" in SoftBench
Online Help for a listing of useful environment variables.
Choose "Custom: Edit Menus…" to add your commands. New commands
are added to the "Custom" menu under the "User Commands" label. These
commands are visible only to you.