7.1 The podium window

When you start the LispWorks IDE, by default a window known as the podium appears.

Figure 7.1 The LispWorks podium

The podium contains a menu bar, a toolbar, and a message areaThe 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, 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 menu bar contains five menus:

• The Works menu contains commands that operate on the current window.
• The File menu contains commands that open, load, save and compile Lisp files.
• The Tools menu contains commands to create and configure the LispWorks IDE tools.
• The Windows menu lists all the current windows in the environment. To make any window the active window, choose it from this menu.
• The Help menu contains commands described in Getting Help.