CAAPE User's Manual - ALSTOM Signaling Inc.

Getting StartedThe toolbar is located below the main menu. Buttons on the toolbar can be clicked toselect certain operations. As with the main menu, the toolbar’s contents may changedepending on what is currently being edited. Additional toolbars may also be displayedfor certain graphical editing operations. You can use Tool Tips to determine what thetoolbar buttons do. Move the mouse cursor over a button and briefly pause it there. Thepurpose of the button is displayed under the cursor and described in CAAPE’s statuswindow.The tabbed window to the left just below the toolbar is called the Project Workspace. Itdisplays the contents of a CAAPE project. The Project Workspace contains three tabs:the Project View, the Component View and the File View. These tabs display differentelements of the project: the Project View displays graphical systems, the ComponentView displays graphical components, and the File View displays the input, report andoutput files used by the compilers, data verifiers and other tools. These terms areexplained in detail later in this manual. The Project Workspace is dockable: it can bemoved to and anchored at various positions within the main window, or undocked andfloated anywhere within or outside the main window. Right click over the ProjectWorkspace to get a popup menu with its docking options.The blank area to the right of the Project Workspace is called the Edit Workspace. Itcontains various types of editing and print preview windows. The windows in the EditWorkspace is organized in standard Windows ® multiple-document fashion, similar toother programs that can display multiple documents at one time.The white area across the bottom is the Message Workspace. This area displays statusand error messages resulting from various CAAPE operations such as compiling. Themessages displayed in this window can be saved to a file if desired. Like the ProjectWorkspace, the Message Workspace is dockable.The status bar on the very bottom, currently displaying “For Help…,” displays certainstatus messages. It also displays the description of menu items and toolbar buttons asthe cursor is moved over them.Figure 3-2 is an example of the main CAAPE window when a project is open andCAAPE is being used to do graphical editing.P2512A, Rev. Oct/09 3–4 Alstom Signaling Inc.