The View menu contains items which affect the presentation of the current file. Selecting options from this menu will only be reflected on the current file. This section discusses the items which may not be familiar.
The Cursor Highlight displays the current line (the line on which the cursor is located) using a different background color. This ensures the attention of the user is immediately drawn to the current line when the position of the cursor would not normally be so obvious.
When enabled, Selection Tips display a tool-tip whenever a range of text is selected. When a selection is on a single line, the tool-tip displays the starting and ending character position and the number of characters included in the selection. When a selection includes multiple lines, the tool-tip displays the number of lines selected.
When enabled, bracket, square bracket and curly brace characters, are highlighted in pairs when the mouse is positioned above or when typing a bracket or brace character. This can be invaluable as an instant visual clue to the completion of an expression using brackets or when attempting to determine the scope of encapsulated code.
Guide Lines provide an ideal way to mark the position of a character (relative to the left margin) using vertical indicator lines. These guide lines can be especially useful when enforcing fixed levels of indenting in source code or when editing ASCII data files in which a single line represents a data record.
This option allows you to display line numbers against each line in a file. If the current file included numbered lines, such as COBOL, the numbers displayed are not editable.
This option allows you to display the COBOL line tags for each line.
This sub-menu provides a list of the different languages which may be embedded in the current file as identified by the fileÆs file type. Selecting an item from the menu updates the current color syntax highlighting to visually represent the chosen language component apart from the surrounding text.
Selecting Stop will cancel the current load or save.
This option will reload the current file; any existing bookmarks are preserved.
This option will update the CodeAware database for the current file, updating the CodeAware drop-down on the toolbar and the tree view in the Syntax tab of the Workspace window. If the current file is included in the current project, and the current fileÆs file type is identified to be included, the projectÆs ClassView.will be updated also.
This option displays a Network Trace tab in the Output window. The Network Trace tab displays the details of all FTP protocol traffic.
This displays the Server Connections dialog box which lists all server profiles and provides details of connection status. Using the Server Connections dialog box, you can also disconnect specific servers.
This displays the Properties dialog box for the current file.