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Overview of GUI Structure

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  1. Menu bar

  2. Toolbar

  3. Perspective picker

  4. Editor

  5. General views

  6. Model Explorer

  7. Repository

General User Interface Concepts

Views

The user interface of SOX consists of multiple "views", which have the appearance of rectangular areas within the user interface. Views are typically used to navigate a list or hierarchy of information or display properties for the active editor. The views can be freely opened, closed and arranged. The most important and special views are the repository view and the editor.

The repository view:
The repository view is where you can find all of your SOX projects and files. You usually find it on the left-hand side when starting SOX. You always start here, whether you create a new project, import a project
or open an existing project. To learn more about working with projects, kindly refer to SOX Projects (SOX 3.3 or before).
The editor:
You will mostly work within the editor, using the other views as an aid. You get a specific editor for each module.

Rearranging views:
You can change a view´s location on the screen by dragging and dropping:

  1. Click on a view´s tab, holding down the mouse button.

  2. Move the cursor to another location in the same stack of views, or even to a different stack of views. - Outcome: a gray vertical line indicates where the view will be placed.

  3. Release the mouse button. - Outcome: the view´s tab has been placed at the new location.

You can even create a new stack (or area) for views:

When you drag a view around the screen, you can see that in certain places a double gray line appears.

This phenomenon indicates that a new stack will be created if you release the mouse button there.

Minimizing views:
In the upper right corner of a view click on the “minimize” icon.

Outcome: the whole stack of views has been minimized and moved to the left or right of the screen.

Maximizing views:
In the upper right corner of a view, click on the “maximize” icon.

Outcome: all the other sets of views have been minimized and moved to the left or the right edge of the screen.

Restoring views that have been minimized:

  1. Find the minimized views on the left or the right edge of the screen.

  2. Click on the "restore" button to the left or right of the screen:


    Outcome: the stack of views has been restored.

Perspectives

Perspectives are predefined collections of views for the specific modules.

You find all the currently open perspectives to the very upper right:

"SOX Workbench" (the EnCo icon against a black backdrop) is the default perspective; you start from here. Here you find the repository view, which lets you access all your files.

If you double-click on a file in the repository view in the workbench perspective, the corresponding
perspective will open.

Perspectives can also be customized to fit your own workflow. It is even possible to create new
perspectives.

1.Click on the Open Perspective icon:

Outcome: the "Open Perspective" dialog opens.


2. Choose the desired perspective.
3. Click the OK button to finish.
Outcome: SOX is opened in the chosen perspective with the corresponding views.
To customize the perspective, click on Window in the menu bar.


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