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The Applications Pad provides a view of all opened applications in the IDE. You can also manage your applications with regards to source generation, and compiling and building the project all from this pad.

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The toolbar provides the following options:

Edit Application

Opens the Application Editor for the selected application

The next three buttons contain drop menus with a number of generation and build options. All of these items are toggle settings divided into three sub categories. Pressing the toolbar button will then execute generation based on the current drop menu settings.

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Generate All

Generates source for all applications opened for editing (those opened in the Application Editor).

Generate Selected

Generates source for the selected application only. You can multi-select applications in this Pad if needed, and this option will generate all applications selected.

Generate Edited

Generates source for the application currently being edited and selected (on top) in the Application Editor.

Conditional Generation Mode

Choose from three options. Use the default setting as defined in the Application Options dialog, or override those settings by switching to Conditional or Unconditional Generation..

Generate Trace File

Source Generation optionally includes a trace option as defined in the Application Options dialog. You can also override those settings by switching to Generate or Don't Generate as needed. This file should be use only for diagnostic purposes, as it can sometimes affect generation performance.

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In addition to the Generation Menu options documented above, the Generate and Build button adds the following options:

Generate

Generates source for all applications based on the Generate option selected (Generate All, Generate Selected or Generate Edited).

Build

Builds the source for all applications based on the Generate option selected (Generate All, Generate Selected or Generate Edited).

Generate and Build

Generates and Builds the source for all applications based on the Generate option selected (Generate All, Generate Selected or Generate Edited).

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If you are using the Enterprise Edition, the Generate and Build option above is optimized for large projects. For example, if you have App1, App2 and App3 selected to process, the applications are processed as follows:

Generate App1

Build App1

Generate App2

Build App2

Generate App2

Build App2

If you are using the Professional Edition, the Generate and Build option is slightly different as follows:

Generate App1

Generate App2

Generate App3

Build App1

Build App2

Build App3

The behavior of the Generate Only and Generate and Run options are identical in both Enterprise and Professional Editions:

Generate App1

Generate App2

Generate App3

Build App1

Build App2

Build App3

Run Start Up Project

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In addition to the Generation Menu options documented above, the Generate and Run button adds the following options:

Run

Runs program from IDE. This option will generate source for applications opened for editing, compile, and build all prior to the Run if needed.

Run with Debugger

Runs program in the debugger. This option will generate source for applications opened for editing, and then compile, and build all prior to the Run if needed.

Other Buttons

Open Dictionary

Opens the active dictionary used by the applications as read only.

Sort by Generation order

Toggle the application sort order between generation order and alphabetical.

Refresh

Refreshes the application pad. Usually this is required after a project import or conversion.

Create Application from TXA file

Opens a utility that allows you create an application from an Application Text file (TXA).

Export to Text

Exports the selected application to a TXA (Application Text) file.

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Caching Applications

“Opened” applications are applications that are either loaded in the Application Editor, or, they can be applications that are “lazy loaded”, meaning that the application registry and any parsing of source libraries required by the templates has been performed.

Open (or “lazy loaded”) applications in the Applications Pad are identified by the following icon:

OpenedAppIcon.jpg

Applications not opened (or “lazy loaded”) are identified by the following icon.

ClosedAppIcon.jpg

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If you select an application to generate, and the application is not already opened, the Generate action will “lazy load” the application as described above.

Generate All

Generates source for all applications listed in the Applications Pad. Applications not marked as opened will be “lazy loaded” as described above.

These “generate” buttons can also be found on the Main IDE Toolbar.

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