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Your STVD graphical environment UM0036
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For details about these features, refer to Help and support features on page 70.
Contextual menus
STVD provides contextual menus in the view, editor and workspace windows. Contextual
menus contain commands that are specific to a window or STVD feature. In some cases,
commands are only accessible in the contextual menu and not the main menu. You can
access contextual menus for a window by right-clicking within that window. To find out more
about the commands that are available in a contextual menu, refer to the section that
describes the feature or window that you are interested in.
3.3 View windows
Within STVD’s main window, positionable view windows are provided to give you easy
access to debugging information and features. These view windows are specific to
debugging features and activities. A list of these windows and summary description is
provided in Table 12 .
Instruction Set
Contents...
Opens the Table of Contents of the Instruction Set online assembler reference
pages.
Generate Support
File
Opens the Generate Information File for Support window for outputting log
files that you can send to support when seeking assistance after an
application crash.
Table 11. Help menu commands (continued)
Command Description
Table 12. View windows
Command Description
Workspace window
Allows you to manage your project, add projects and source files and define
dependencies. (refer to Workspace window on page 41).
Output window
Contains tabs that display messages and information related to specific
activities or features. For example, the Build tab displays the commands
errors and messages that are the result of building your application. In
addition, the Console tab is a powerful tool that allows you to view the
commands sent by the core debugger when you use an STVD feature, or
bypass the GUI and send commands directly to the core debugger (refer to
Output window on page 56).
Disassembly
window
Displays disassembled application code (refer to Disassembly window on
page 175).
Register windows
Core registers
Displays the contents of all internal registers (Accumulator, registers X and Y,
Program counter, Stack pointer and Condition code register) at the location of
the program counter (refer to Core registers window on page 192).
Peripheral
registers
Displays all the peripheral registers of the target MCU and their values (refer
to Peripheral registers window on page 196).
Memory window
Allows you to monitor the contents of the microcontroller’s entire memory
(refer to Memory window on page 180).