The LispWorks IDE has been designed so that its features are consistent throughout, and tools have a uniform look and feel. All tools have certain characteristics which look the same, and behave in a consistent manner. By making as many common features as possible, learning how to use each tool is much simpler.
2 A Short Tutorial, introduced you to some of the major tools in the environment, demonstrating the commonality and high integration between them, and showing how this can be used to good effect in the development process. This chapter describes these common features in more detail.
When you start the LispWorks IDE, by default a window known as the podium appears.
The podium contains a menu bar, a toolbar, and a message area. The icons in the podium's toolbar access the Listener, Editor, Output Browser, Inspector, Class Browser, Generic Function Browser, Symbol Browser, Object Clipboard, Function Call Browser, Code Coverage Browser, System Browser, Compilation Conditions Browser, Search Files, Profiler, Tracer, Stepper, Window Browser, Process Browser, Shell and Application Builder tools. If you hold the mouse over these icons for a second, the corresponding tool name will appear as floating help text.
The IDE tools have most of these menu items in common with the podium.
The podium's menu bar contains six menus:
In addition to the podium, each tool window has its own set of menus and toolbar buttons. Most of the common features in the environment can be found under the Works, File, Tools, Windows, History and Help menus. Other menus may also be available depending on the current tool. Using the commands available under these menus you can:
Each menu command operates on the window associated with the menu.
In addition, some other conventions have been adopted throughout the LispWorks IDE:
These features are described in full in this chapter. Please note that subsequent descriptions of individual tools in the environment do not include a description of these menus, unless a feature specific to the individual tool is described.
Online help is also available from the Help menu in any window. These facilities are described in 4 Getting Help.
Many tools allow you to display information in the form of a graph. These graph views behave consistently throughout the environment, and a description of the graph features offered is given in 6 Manipulating Graphs.
LispWorks IDE User Guide (Unix version) - 01 Dec 2021 19:37:02