Using SoftBench

Managing Your SoftBench Environment

Managing Your SoftBench Environment

SoftBench provides several ways to customize your environment. In general, customizations are located on the "View" and "Options" menus. The "Options" menu lets you tailor SoftBench's behavior to meet your needs. For example, you can:

•change the tool icons displayed on the toolbar

•set tool preferences

•change where SoftBench looks for projects

•customize build behavior

•set behavior of current project when opening a new project

•set language preferences (requires restarting SoftBench to take effect)

The "View" menu lets you tailor SoftBench's appearance. You can:

•refresh the Files view, which updates the status of the file icons

•show or hide the toolbar

•show or hide the target graph

•show or hide the local workspace root

The Custom menu allows you to create your own commands on the SoftBench toolface. You can add entries under the Custom menu, and have those entries available on all tool menu bars ("System" commands), or on all instances of a specific tool class ("User" commands). Any command that could be entered at a shell prompt can be launched from the Custom menu. (See SoftBench Online Help on the "Custom" menu for information on customizing SoftBench menus.)

This feature is especially useful if you need to run a command within the SoftBench environment. Commands launched from the Custom menu inherit the full SoftBench environment, including environment variables. See "SoftBench Environment Variables" in SoftBench Online Help for a listing of useful environment variables.

Choose "Custom: Edit Menus…" to add your commands. New commands are added to the "Custom" menu under the "User Commands" label. These commands are visible only to you.

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