Studio views

The Studio is capable of many different views. These can be selected in the View menu. Of the 7 different possible views listed there, you mostly need 3 or 4. Each view has an associated panel that can be shown within the main Studio window. A combination of views is called a layout. The simplest layout has three views:

Easy layout
Easy layout

For different kinds of work (layout, coding, document creation) you can select different layouts in View > Layout. These layouts are predefined. We can change layouts or add new ones, let us know if you know a better one.

View menu
View menu

You can adjust the all the sizes of the different panels, by hovering with the mouse over the border.

Moving the border
Moving the border

If you press save, the sizes of the panels are saved. If you make the main Studio window bigger or smaller, the relative sizes of the panels are kept.

Saving the sizes
Saving the sizes

If you have selected a Layout, the Publisher will enable the buttons for all the views that are available and show the associated panels. If you press one of the enabled buttons, you select that panel, whose caption will turn red for a few seconds. If you hover over the buttons, you will find that there are shortcuts for each panel, e.g. [Ctrl+Alt+A] for actions (see shortcuts). These shortcuts can be used to get the focus to the right panel without using the mouse.

Selecting the enabled panels
Selecting the enabled panels

The views

The following views are available:

  1. Graph: here you create and structure your model;
  2. Actions: here you view, add and edit actions of a node;
  3. Text fragments: shows all the text fragments that you have added to your model;
  4. Inspector: shows detailed information about an interface;
  5. Preview: shows a small preview of your model;
  6. Navigator: shows all interfaces of an node, and how they are related to each other;
  7. Source: here you can edit the source code of the model.