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Your STVD graphical environment UM0036
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3 Your STVD graphical environment
These sections describe the layout of STVD: the various menus, toolbars and status
indicators that will help you, whether you are building, or debugging your application. In
particular the following sections provide information about:
● Section 3.1: The main application window
● Section 3.2: The main menus and their commands
● Section 3.3: View windows
● Section 3.4: Workspace window
● Section 3.5: Editor windows
● Section 3.6: Output window
● Section 3.7: Customizing your work environment
● Section 3.8: Tooltips
● Section 3.9: Help and support features
● Section 3.10: Migrating old workspaces (STVD7 2.5.4 and prior versions)
3.1 The main application window
Figure 14 shows STVD’s main application window. An application has been opened and
several of the debugging windows are seen in a typical configuration. This is one possible
arrangement of window elements; you can change the position of all windows, open or close
individual elements, change the windows that are visible at startup, and save the
configuration.
The different areas on this screen are:
● Main menu bar: The main menu bar is always visible. It contains pull-down menus to
access the principal STVD functions (see Section 3.2: The main menus and their
commands).
● Relocatable toolbars: Under the main menu, control buttons are grouped by subject
into relocatable toolbars (default position). Toolbars may be shown or hidden
independently. The contents of each toolbar can be user-defined, and new toolbars
created as required (see Section 3.7.2: Customizing toolbars on page 65).
● Text Editor windows: You can open up one or all of your application's source files in
text editor windows. These windows can be cascaded, floated, minimized or maximized
(see Section 3.5: Editor windows on page 43).
● Docking windows: The various STVD view windows are dockable for greater ease of
use when several windows are open at the same time. They may be moved to different
docking positions, undocked and placed independently on the desktop, or free-floating
within the main STVD window area. The name of each window appears in a caption at
the top of the window (see Section 3.5: Editor windows on page 43).
● The Status bar: Displays current attributes associated with the Edit window and STVD
status.