The Utilities notebook is on the lower right-hand side of the CODE Designer window. It lets you view specific elements of the DDS source such as errors and selected objects. This notebook contains the following views:
The Selected DDS page displays the generated DDS source for the currently selected item in the Details page or Design page of the Workbook, or in the DDS Tree.
To refresh the page, simply press
the refresh button.
For fields, keywords, keys, and help specifications this pane will be kept up-to-date whenever a change occurs. For larger DDS constructs such as records, groups and files the pane will show the state of the DDS source at the time the object was selected.
The Error list page shows you the errors from the previous DDS source verification. You can use it to do the following:
To access the second level help for these messages, press F1 with the error selected. To locate the error in the Source page, double-click on the error.
The Create keywords page lets you add, change, and obtain help for DDS keywords for a file, record, or field. This page contains a list of all the available keywords for the selected object in the DDS Tree. This keyword list can be subset by selecting the type from the Subset drop-down list.
Keywords appear as icons. There are keyword icons for simple
keywords
and property icons
for keywords which are created through their file, record, or field
properties notebook.
To create a keyword, double-click on its icon or highlight the icon and press Insert. If this is a simple keyword, the program creates the keyword with default parameters on the selected object in the DDS Tree. The properties notebook will appear to allow you to change the keyword's parameters if it has any. If this keyword has a properties notebook page associated with it, its properties notebook will appear where you can create or change the keyword.
To obtain help on a specific keyword, highlight the keyword and press F1 to bring up context-sensitive help on the keyword from the DDS Reference manual.
Type a description of the object. You can edit the DDS comments that are associated with the current object. Type information such as its purpose, any special characteristics, and names of other related objects in them. The CODE Designerassumes that the comments listed before a record or field belong to that DDS object.
The program automatically wraps the text to fit the editor. You do not need to press Enter unless you want to insert a break in the text. The data in the Comments page will be divided as necessary to fit into DDS comments.
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