13.1 The Tools Menu
The Tools
menu gives access to additional tools. Some items are
currently disabled, meaning that these are planned tools not yet available.
The list of active items includes:
- Views
-
- Bookmarks
- See Bookmarks.
- Call Tree
- Open a tree view of function callers and callees. See also Call Graph.
- Clipboard
- See The Clipboard View.
- Files
- Open a file system explorer on the left area.
See The File View.
- File Switches
- See File Switches.
- Outline
- Open a view of the current source editor.
See The Outline View.
- Project
- See The Project View.
- Remote
- See Setup a remote project.
- Scenario
- See Scenarios and Configuration Variables.
- Tasks
- See The Task Manager.
- VCS Explorer
- See The VCS Explorer.
- VCS Activities
- See The VCS Activities.
- Windows
- Open a view containing all currently opened files.
See The Window View.
- Browsers
-
- Call Graph
- See Call Graph.
- Dependency
- See Dependency Browser.
- Entity
- See Entity Browser.
- Coding Standard
-
- Compare
- See Visual Comparison.
- Consoles
-
- GPS Shell
- Open a shell console at the bottom area of GPS. Note that this not an OS
shell console, but a GPS shell console, where you can type GPS specific
commands such as
help
.
See The Shell and Python Windows.
- Python
- Open a python console to access the python interpreter.
See The Shell and Python Windows.
- OS Shell
- Open an OS (Windows or Unix) console, using the environment variables
SHELL
and COMSPEC
to determine which shell to use. This is
currently a relatively simple implementation, without support for e.g.
completion or ANSI codes.
- Coverage
- See Code Coverage.
- Documentation
- See Documentation Generation.
- Macro
- See Recording and replaying macros.
- Metrics
- See Metrics.
- Plug-ins
- See The Plug-ins Editor.
- Interrupt
- Interrupt the last task launched (e.g. compilation, vcs query, ...).