Using the Editor

Typing

When you open the Designer's code window, a blank area appears, ready for you to start editing. A blinking vertical bar called the insertion point indicates where code appears when you type. You press ENTER when you want to start a new line. You may delete characters to either the left or right of the insertion point.

Some code windows contain more text than you may see at one time. To view the code that you cannot see, use the mouse or the keyboard to scroll through the code. You may display scroll bars along the right and bottom edges of code windows, that you may use to move through a code quickly.

Revising

When you want to change something in a code window, you first mark what you want to change. This is called selecting. A common way to select is to hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer over the text you want to select to highlight it.

After you select text, you may delete it from the window, make a copy to insert in a new location, or delete it from its current location and move it elsewhere. You may copy and move text within a window, between windows, and to and from other Windows-based applications.

Editor Features

The Designer's editor is the same editor as used in Sunbelt Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The editor has many features including code folding, auto completion, context sensitive help, and syntax highlighting.