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The Graphical User Interface


This section describes the appearance and functionality of the graphical user interface of the Targeting Expert (sdttaex). Some user interface descriptions common to all tools can be found in User Interface and Basic Operations.

The Main Window

When you start the Targeting Expert in the interactive mode its main window is displayed.

Figure 514 : The Targeting Expert main window

The Menu Bar

This section describes the menu bar of the Targeting Expert Main window and all the available menu choices.

The menu bar contains the following menus:

Configurable Menus

Some menu choices may be available through the concept of user-defined menus. For more information, see Defining Menus in the SDL Suite.

The definition file for user-defined menus searched for by the Targeting Expert is called taex-menus.ini.

There are several placeholders possible to be used with the FormattedCommand clause in taex-menus.ini.

placeholder ... will be replaced by ...

%s

system directory

%b

target directory (the one given in the Organizer)

%t

sub target directory (the one calculated depending on the selected component and integration)

%e

executable name (inclusive extension)

%i

intermediate directory

File Menu

The File menu contains the following menu choices:

See File Menu.

Edit Menu

The Edit menu gives access to the enlargement of the Targeting Expert configuration files.

Make Menu

The Make menu allows to control the make process of the Targeting Expert.

Tools Menu

The Tools menu gives access to other SDL Suite tools.

The Integration Tool Bar

The integration tool bar should be used to (from left to right)

Furthermore it should also be used to handle pre-defined and user-defined integration settings (see Handling of Settings), i.e.

The Work Area

The work area of the Targeting Expert is used for giving input masks for the different configurations and scalings.

The different input masks are described in

The Event Log

The Targeting Expert has an event log containing information about found inconsistencies, read/write problems concerning file access, output, etc.

Figure 515 : The event log

Analyzer/Compiler Errors

You can access analyzer and compiler errors by double clicking the error message in the event log.


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