About the ATEasy Development Environment

This chapter provides information on how to use and customize the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It includes the following topics:

 

Topic

Description

Using the Integrated Development Environment

How to use the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to perform all ATEasy operations.

Common Editing Operations

How to perform common operations such as dragging and dropping, cutting, pasting, and undoing/redoing changes.

Printing

How to print in ATEasy.

Working with Objects

How to use trees and objects.

Coding

How to enter procedure and test code.

Working with Documents

How to use documents such as creating or opening or closing or removing documents, working with the workspace file, document view, tree and object view, shortcuts and document properties, saving versions, and more.

Customizing the Environment

How to customize the environment including the keyboad combinations, menus, and toolbars.

Specifying Options in the Options Dialog

How to specify ATEasy options such as the appearance of text on the screen, how files are found, and how the Workspace files are saved.

Building Your Application

Describes how to build and distribute your ATEasy application.

Running and Debugging Programs

Description of tools for executing programs and tools for analyzing how to debug programs.