Menus of the start-up window

File Menu

The items on the File Menu are: New Project, Open Project, Reread Directory, Change Directory, Make Directory, and Quit.
New Project
Creates a new project.

Open Project
Opens the selected project.

Reread Project
Rescans the actual directory.

Change Directory
Changes to the selected directory.

Make Directory
Offers the possibility to create a new directory.

Quit
Closes all the opened projects and quits the PEP tool.

Edit Menu

The items on the Edit Menu are: Copy Project, Remove Project, and Rename Project.
Copy Project
Copies a project. A dialog box is displayed. The names of the source and the target project used by the copy command should be entered with or without the postfix .project . An option specifies whether or not all its objects are copied. Be careful, if you do not copy all its objects two projects are using the same files!

Rename Project
Renames a project. A dialog box is displayed. The names of the source and the target project used by the rename command should be entered with or without the postfix .project . An option specifies whether or not all its objects are renamed. Be careful, if you do not rename all its objects the project is using the files with different names!

Delete Project
Deletes a project. A dialog box is displayed. The name of the project should be entered with or without the postfix .project . An option specifies whether or not all its objects are deleted. Be careful, if you do not delete all its objects you will have files that do not belong to any project!

Help Menu

The item on the Help Menu is About.
About
Shows the about box for the whole PEP tool.

Project Menu

The item on the Project Menu is Project List.
Project List
Displays a list of all opened projects. A double-click on one of them brings its project window to the foreground.

Options Menu

Although these options are available we do not encourage you to use them. They are only interesting for the developper of the PEP tool.

The items on the Options Menu are: Display Debug, File Debug, Show Globals, Show Open Projects, and Show Com.

Display Debug
If this option is selected then some interesting debugging information (e.g., all calls to the algorithms invoked by the PEP tool, their results, etc.) is written to the shell during the run of the PEP tool. Usually you can iconify the shell during your work with the PEP tool because it is not needed.

File Debug
If this option is selected the debugging information is continuously written to a file calls "peptool.deb".

Show Globals
Writes Tcl/Tk information to the shell. This information is only interesting for Tcl/Tk programmers.

Show Open Project
Writes information about all opened projects to the shell.

Show Com
Displays some information about the communications within the PEP tool in a dialog box. This is only interesting if the communication between the different parts of the tool does not work correctly.