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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.

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, ...).