3.1.1 Displaying existing windows

Choose the Windows menu from the podium. This menu contains a list of all the windows currently available in the environment. Choosing any item from this list brings the window to the front of the display.

3.1.2 Iconifying existing windows

To iconify a window, use the command provided by your window manager.

3.1.3 Displaying tools using the mouse

To display most tools:

1. Choose the Tools menu from the podium.

Most tools in the environment are listed in this menu.

2. Choose the tool you require from the menu.

or

1. Choose the Works > Tools menu from any tool.
2. Choose the tool you require from this menu.

or

1. Click the appropriate button on the Podium.

For example, to display a Process Browser, click .

The tool is created (if necessary), and displayed. Using this method can be useful you may not remember immediately whether you have an existing instance of a given tool or not.

3.1.4 Displaying tools using the keyboard

Accelerators are provided for the popular items on the Tools menu. Each tool accelerator is an alphanumeric key together with platform-specific modifier keys as shown in Tool accelerator keys. You cannot configure these pre-defined tool accelerators.

3.1.5 Re-using tool windows

3.1.6 Toolbar configurations

Most tools have toolbars offering one-click access to frequently-used commands. For example, the Editor has a toolbar for operating on source code.

Figure 3.1 The Editor's source operations toolbar

You may prefer to remove such toolbars. You can control whether a tool displays its toolbars by the option Show Toolbar .

To hide toolbars for a particular type of tool:

1. Raise the Preferences dialog as described in Setting preferences.
2. Select the tool in the list on the left side of the dialog.
3. Select the General tab on the right side of the dialog.
4. Uncheck Show Toolbar and click OK to confirm the setting.

You can also customize the toolbar by removing rarely-used buttons and adding or removing separators between groups of buttons. To do this, raise the context menu on the toolbar, choose Customize and make your selections in the Customize Toolbar dialog. You can also use this menu to select whether this toolbar's buttons show an image, or text, or both.

Note: The functionality of each toolbar is available elsewhere. For example the Editor's source code operations are also available on the Buffer , Definitions and Expression menus.

3.1.7 Copying windows

Choose Works > Clone in a given tool window to make a copy of that tool window. This is useful, for instance, if you wish to have two different views on an object simultaneously, and allows you to have several copies of a tool without having to change its re-use property using the Works > Customize menu.

3.1.8 Closing windows

Close any window in the environment using one of the following methods:

• Choose Works > Exit > Window
• Use a window-manager-specific feature, if available
• In Editor windows only, use the Emacs-like command Delete Window (keystroke Ctrl+X 0)

3.1.9 Updating windows

To manually update any tool, choose Works > Refresh or click .

Updating a tool is a useful way of making a snapshot of an aspect of the environment that you are interested in. For instance, imagine you want to compare a number of instances of a CLOS class against a known instance of the same class using the Inspector. You can do this as follows:

1. Create an object to inspect, by entering in a Listener
(make-instance 'capi:text-input-pane)
2. Choose Values > Inspect to view the object in the Inspector.
3. Make sure the Inspector is the active window, and choose Works > Clone to make a copy of it.
4. In the Listener, enter the same form again to create a second object.

Note: You can use Esc P in Emacs emulation or Ctrl+Up in Windows emulation to get the previous Listener command.

5. View the new object in the Inspector as in Step 2. Compare it to the original instance that is still displayed in the clone.