User`s manual

5-2 Suite56 DSP Tools User’s Manual Motorola
I’m tired of initializing my development environment every time I start work. Is there any way to save my
• Choose which windows open automatically when you start a session.
In the graphic user interface, from the File menu, choose Preferences.
A dialogue box opens for you to indicate which windows to open and
whether to save window status when you exit the tool. In the same
dialogue box, you also click the Font button to open another dialogue
box for you to indicate which font (family, style, and size) you prefer.
•Save a log file of frequently used commands.
In the graphic user interface, from the File menu, choose Log,and
then select Commands. A dialogue box opens for you to indicate
where you want to save the file containing the logged commands. Any
commands you issue to the debugger after that point will be logged in
that file to be saved automatically as executable macros.
In the text-based, type the
log command with two options: the option c to indicate
that you want to log only commands and the optional argument of a file name for
the log file. You can also indicate whether you want to overwrite an existing file
(option
o) or append new commands to an existing file (option a) with a third
option.
In either interface, to reuse the command log file, simply type the name of the
command log file on the command line.
5.2 I’m tired of initializing my development environment
every time I start work. Is there any way to save my
development environment?
Yes: Suite56 tools, such as the simulator and ADS debugger, recognize a file named
startup.cmd in the directory from which you start the tool. In fact, when they start, both
tools search for that file. If it exists in the directory where the tool starts, then the tool will
execute the commands in that file as it starts.
If your are working on Windows NT, and you prefer to start the tool from the Start menu,
then you need to customize your Start menu by modifying the Advanced NT Properties of
the shortcut to the tool. To do so, left-click on the menubar; a menu appears for you to
choose Properties; in the dialogue box that appears, choose the “Start Menu Programs”
tab; on that tab, click the Advanced button to open Explorer on the Start menu; locate the
“Motorola DSP Software Development Tools” folder; display its contents; left-click on
the name of the tool; a menu appears for you to choose its Properties; in the dialogue box
that appears, choose the Shortcut tab; on the Shortcut tab, in the Target text box, add the
name of the command file as a parameter to the command that starts the tool.