8 5 Commands

Displays LANSA Product Information.

(Design)

Sets the attributes required to expose this component as an ActiveX control.
Refer to ActiveX Controls in the Developer Guide.

(Design)

Aligns a group of selected components in the Design tab.
Refer to Align.

(Debug)

In animate mode the debug automatically steps from one command to the next while showing the line currently being executed.
You can set the delay between commands using the Delay command.
Refer to Animate Application Execution.

(Debug)

This option is otherwise the same as animate, except that it also executes functions or components which have been marked as not debuggable.
You can set the delay between commands using the Delay command.
Refer to  Animate Application Execution.

(Home)

Checks the syntax of your code and generates the code for the target platform you have specified.

(Debug)

Clear all breakpoints set in the open application.
Refer to Set Breakpoints.

(File)

Closes current the object.

Closes all objects.

Shortcut: Ctrl  + W
Comment selected lines of code.

(Home)

Checks the syntax of your code, generates the code and compiles it for the target platform you have specified. 
Refer to Compile Tab.

Displays a list of all LANSA documentation so that you can search on a topic in all the LANSA guides or choose a specific guide to view.

Dropdown next to Help icon

(Debug)

Continue the execution of the open application.
Refer to Start Debugging.

(Home)

Copies the selection to the Clipboard.

(Home)

Cuts the selection and puts it in the Clipboard.

(Home)

Start the Debug operation. Refer to Debugging Applications for more information.

(Debug)

Specify the delay time between the execution of commands.
Refer to Animate Application Execution.

(Home)

Deletes the selection

(Tools)

When you select this command, the Deployment Tool will start. You can use this tool to create a list of objects, both LANSA and non-LANSA, to be deployed. Refer to the Deployment Tool Guide.

Shortcut (F10) to open the Design Tab.

Checks the design of your screen or report.

(Design)

Sets the language of captions in the Design tab.
Refer to Development Language in the Administrator Guide.

(Design)

Sets the theme for the application being designed. There are other considerations in using themes. To find out more, refer to Themes in the Developer's Guide.

(Debug)

Disable all breakpoints set in the open application.
Refer to  Set Breakpoints.

Enable for RDMLX

(Home)

Enables an object for RDMLX.
RDMLX fields and RDMLX files can only be used in functions and components which have been enabled for RDMLX. Also, language enhancements are only available in RDMLX.
Make sure your object does not contain syntax errors before you enable it for RDMLX.
Refer to RDML and RDMLX Partition Concepts in the Administrator's Guide.

(Debug)

Ends the current debug session.
Refer to Start Debugging.

(Home)

Shows the local and web runtime error logs.See Fatal Errors.

(Home)

Runs your code on the platform you specify.
Refer to  Executing Applications.

(File)

Closes the editor.

(Home)

Finds the next occurrence of the specified text in the Source tab.
Refer to Find.

(Home)

Finds the previous occurrence of the specified text in the Source tab.
Refer to Find.

(Home)

Finds the specified text in the Source tab.
Refer to Find.

(Home)

Checks the syntax of your code.

(Debug)

Halts the program execution and terminates the debug session.
Refer to Start Debugging.

(Home)

Shows a list of components which have been executed. You can use this list to quickly execute components.

(Tools)

Import translations to the current partition.

(Tools)

Launches Integrator Studio.

(Settings)

Sets interactive verification to On (the Default), Off and Verify Now.

When objects are being edited in the LANSA Editor, a verification process is run to provide feedback to you about the state of the object being edited. For source objects, such as functions and components, verification occurs as the source changes, while for non-source objects such as fields and files, verifications are run every 1.5 seconds. This verification process produces the error/warning triangles and messages seen throughout the Editor.

For large objects such as files with many references to other file, for example, lookup rules, it may be desirable to turn off the verification until the object is saved, rather than continually check that the details entered by the user are correct. This check can be a performance overhead, so turning off interactive verification allows you to make many changes and then either verify as part of the save of the file. You can verify on demand using Ctrl+F9.

(Tools)

Launches LANSA's end user reporting tool, LANSA Client, if it is installed.

(Tools)

Use this option to import data into the repository. To do this you must have first used LANSA export function which creates files that can then be imported into Visual LANSA. They can be directly imported from a PC "local directory" using shared folder support or from a directory on a drive. If a shared folder is used, PC Support must be started.
Please note that before you start to import data into the repository, your repository must be already configured adequately. Refer to LANSA Import in the Administrator Guide.

LANSA Home Page

Use the dropdown list nex to the help icon to open the LANSA home page.

Layout Manager

Shows the Layout Manager dialog.

Refer to Layout Managers in the Developer Guide.

From New file drop down list, select File, then Load Other File.
Loads file definitions which are maintained outside of LANSA. Load Other Files in the Technical Reference Guide.

(Design)

Toggles the locking of the design.
Refer to Lock Design.

(Tools)

Use the Logical Modeler to design and manipulate a complete logical data model using elements, entities and relationships and then build a physical database from this model. Refer to the Logical Modeler Guide.

(Tools)

Shows the Message Files dialog.
Refer to Message File Maintenance in the Administrator Guide.

Refer to User Message Files for information about using User Message Files in the Multilingual Application Design Guide.

(File)

Creates a new object.

(Quick access toolbar)

Shows the next open object.

(Settings)

Enables or disables Object Locking.
Refer to Object Locking in the Administrator Guide.
When object locking is on, locks are put on objects so that multiple users cannot edit them simultaneously.
In single user environments, object locking can be turned off.
Setting object locking to Read only sets all objects in the partition to READ ONLY status.

(File)

Displays the Open dialog for you to enter the name of an object. This option allows you to directly open an object provided you know the name of it. Refer to Open an Object for more details.

(Home)

Switch between the objects open in the editor.

(Home)

Inserts the Clipboard contents at the insertion point.

(Quick access toolbar)

Shows the previous open object.

(File)

Prints the source code of the object being edited.
Refer to Printing in Visual LANSA.

(Help dropdown list)

Displays the LANSA Product Information dialog.
Refer to Product Information.

(Tools)

Publishes all weblets.

(Tools)

Quickly export component definitions.

Refer to Quick Export in the Administrator Guide.

(Home)

Reinstates the change which was cancelled using Undo.

(Home)

Retrieve information about objects in the master repository. The Master Repository State column in the Repository and Favorites tabs indicates whether an object exists in the master repository.
Refer to Refresh Master Object List in the Administrator Guide.

(Home)

Replaces selected text with the specified text in the Source tab

Refer to Replace.

(Home)

Locates objects in the repository.
Refer to Repository Find.

(File)

Saves the definition of the current object.

(File)

Saves the definition of all open objects.

Shows the Saved Definitions dialog.

(File)

Opens the LANSA Settings to modify the Editor settings.

Shortcuts
(Help dropdown list)

Lists the keyboard shortcuts that can be used in the editor.
Refer to Keyboard Shortcuts.

(Design)

Changes the size of a group of selected components in the Design tab.
Refer to Size.

Shortcut (F9)

Moves focus to the Source Tab.

(Home)

Provides a code search within source code with the Audit Stamps, if selected in Source Settings in the LANSA Settings.

(Home)

Starts the Host Monitor for Repository Synchronization.
When checking objects in or out of the master repository, it is not necessary to manually start the Host Monitor as it is started automatically in the background.
Refer to Start and Stop the Host Monitor in the Administrator Guide.

(Debug)

Executes the current statement and breaks at the next line.
You can use Step Into to execute code one statement at a time. After stepping through each statement, you can see its effects by looking at the Variable window.
Refer to Run Parts of Application.

(Debug)

Execute the procedure called by the current line and break at the line following the current line.
Step Over is identical to Step Into except when the current statement contains a call to a procedure, Step Over executes this procedure as a unit and then steps to the next statement in the current procedure.
Refer to Run Parts of Application.

(Design)

Select the Visual Style to be used for the current component.

(File)

Contains the settings that control the processing of items related to the master, if running a slave system. For further information, refer to System Definitions in the Administrator Guide.

(Home)

Opens the Text Search dialog to search your Source code as described in Text Search.

(Tools)

Translate LANSA object details.

For further information, refer to Translate Objects in the Application Deployment Tool guide.

Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + W
Uncomment selected lines of code

(Home)

Ctrl + Z

(Tools)

Cancels previous change.

(Design) Wizard...

Upgrade repository definitions.

The upgrade tools include a facility to convert files to use an identity column to store the relative record number in the database.

(Help dropdown list)

Shows a list of templates you can use to create applications.

(Home)

Displays the topic Editor Tabs in the User Guide.

Error Logs

Use the Views command to display the various tabs in the editor.

(Home)

Use the Visual LANSA Framework to quickly create component-based LANSA applications for the Windows environment. Refer to Visual LANSA Framework Guide.

(Tools)

To locate fatal errors in your code, select this command, to open the Web Runtime Error Log Viewer.