The Graphical User Interface

Describes the OPL editor, search functions, how to export models for debugging, and how to change IDE preferences.

The main window
Describes the Editing Area, the Outline, the Problem browser, the Status Bar, the Output Area, and other features.
Toolbars
Describes the execution toolbar, and toolbars on individual views.
The OPL editor
Describes the editor feature in the IDE, in particular the intelligent code completion that is aware of OPL syntax and OPL model structures.
Menu commands and equivalent toolbar buttons
Lists the available IDE commands menu by menu.
Right-click menu commands
Describes the commands available from menus when you right-click a project, model, data, settings file, or a run configuration, and when you right-click in the Problem browser or in the Output Area.
IDE Preferences
Describes how to customize the appearance and features of the graphical user interface and the behavior of the editor and other tools, such as CVS, by setting preferences for the IDE.
Setting programming options
Use the settings editor to modify options for the Optimization Programming Language (OPL), mathematical programming (MP) and constraint programming (CP).
Icons
Describes the icons used in the IDE to represent types in the Problem browser, and types and sets in call stacks.

Parent topic: IDE Reference