Main window

This topic gives some information about the menus and controls in the main window.

• The menu
• The toolbar
• The window bar
• The status bar

The menu

• File menu
• Edit menu
• View menu
• Tools menu
• Options menu
• Bookmark menu
• Window menu
• Help menu

The toolbar

The toolbar gives you quick access to some of the menu commands. You can customize the buttons on the toolbar by doublecklicking an unoccupied part of the toolbar or using the Options/Customize toolbar command.

The window bar

The window bar displays a tab for each editor window. By left clicking a tab, the corresponding editor window is activated, by right clicking a tab, the system menu of the editor window is displayed. The visibility of the window bar can be toggled using the View/Show window bar command.

The status bar

The statusbar consists of ten segments:

1. The first segment displays the size of the file in the active editor
2. The second segment displays the current caret position in the active editor window. If a range of disk sectors is currently being edited, the absolute address on disk the caret is pointing to is also displayed (in square brackets)
3. The third segment shows the start and end position of a selected block
4. The fourth segment shows an asterisk (*) if the active file has been modified
5. The fifth segment shows an "R" if the active file has been opened readonly
6. The sixth segment shows an "F" if the active file's size is fixed (when editing disk sectors or process memory blocks or when it has been configured in the "Options" dialog)
7. The seventh segment tells you whether the current editor is in insert, overwrite or no editing mode
8. The eighth segment tells you the current character translation mode (like ANSI (WIN), EBCDIC (BCD) and so on)
9. The ninth segment shows "REC" if you're currently recording a macro script
10. The last segment is a multiple purpose field, it shows hints and load/save/script progress