The Main Toolbar

The main application toolbar provides immediate access to many common editing operations such as:

 

 

The following figure shows the main toolbar:

 

       

 

Accessibility:  Docked at the bottom of the main application window.

 

Description of Components

The following table describes the toolbar icons and their associated actions:

 

Toolbar operation

Description

File operations

Create New File

 

Prompts the user with the New file dialog in order to create a new file.

Open File

Open a file in the editor.

Save File

 

Saves the currently active file. Active only when changes have been made to a file.

Save Files

Saves changes to all active files. Active only when changes have been made to a file.

Reload File

 

Reloads the active file.

Find

Find

 

Search the current document for the requested text.

Cut, copy, paste

Cut

Cut the current selection from the active document and place it on the clipboard.

Cut to clipboard II

 

Cut the current selection from the active document and place it on clipboard 2.

Cut to clipboard III

 

Cut the current selection from the active document and place it on clipboard 3.

Copy

Copy the current selection to the clipboard.

Copy to clipboard II

 

Copy the current selection and place it on clipboard 2.

Copy to clipboard III

 

Copy the current selection and place it on clipboard 3

Paste

Paste the contents of the clipboard into the active document.

Paste from clipboard II

 

Paste the contents of clipboard 2 into the active document.

Paste from clipboard III

 

Paste the contents of clipboard 3 into the active document.

Navigation

Back

The back button is used to jump to previous events on the history list. For more information on the Event stack please refer to the History list topic.

Forward

The forward button is used to jump forward through events on the history list. For more information on the Event stack please refer to the History list topic.

Open Matching File

 

Open the matching file for the current document. For example, if we are working with a .c file and the user selects "Open Matching File" then the corresponding .h file will be opened if it is found.

Brace match

 

Jumps to the location of the matching brace. The cursor must be adjacent to one of the brace types for this to work.

Undo/redo

Undo

Undo the previous operation

Redo

Redo the previous operation that was undone

Split windows

Split vertically

 

Split the file editing panel vertically to create two (or more) individual editing panels, one on top of the other.

Split horizontally

 

Split the file editing panel horizontally to create two (or more) individual editing panels, on to the right of the other.

Remove split windows

 

Remove the most recently added split window.

Sync split windows

 

Synchronize window splits to a single file instead of allowing them to occur against the same file.