The Main Menu

To know the purpose of any menu option in Wedit, open the menu and run the mouse over each item. A short explanatory text will be shown at the lower right of Wedit’s window.

Following is a description of all menu entries:

File: Opens and closes files, renames or saves the current file, opens or closes a project.

Item	Description
New	Creates a new text file, a new Wedit window, or a new project.
Open	Opens an existing file.
Open binary	Opens an existing file and calls the binary editor to edit it.
Insert a file	Inserts a text file at the current cursor position.
Save	Writes the current document to disk.
Save as	Renames the current document and writes it to disk.
Save all	Writes to disk all modified files.
Reload	Discards any changes to the current file and reloads it from disk.
Set read-only	Makes any modifications to the current file impossible.
Close	Closes the current document.
Print	Prints the current file or all loaded files.
Quit	Closes Wedit.

Edit: Text manipulation including moving blocks of text, reformatting the current document, inserting a file, and other commands.

Undo	Undoes the last action.
Cut	Erases the current selection saving it in the clipboard.
Paste	Copies the contents of the clipboard to the cursor position.
Copy function	You choose a function and Wedit copies it to the clipboard.
Copy to file	Copies the contents of the clipboard to a file.
Level	Shows the bracket level.
Mark block	Marks the current block (where the cursor is).
Spaces->Tabs	Converts all white space to tabs if possible.
Tabs->Spaces	Replaces all tabs with their equivalent in spaces.
Recenter	Recenters the cursor in the screen.
Description à Function	Edits a standard description of a function.
Descriptionà File	Edits a standard description of a file.
Show changes	Shows the changes made to the current document.
Reformat	Reformats the program, adding indentation.

Search: Searching or replacing character strings or regular expressions, identifying a file, searching for a function, GREP.

Find	Searches for a character sequence.
Find next	Searches for the next occurrence of the previous search.
Find previous	Searches backwards.
Replace	Replaces one character sequence with another.
Find in files	Searches for a character sequence in a set of files.
Incremental search	Searches the first occurrence of the word you type as you type it. This means fewer characters to type are needed than in the normal search. (in most cases)
Goto Top	Sets the cursor at the beginning of the file.
Goto end	Sets the cursor at the end of the file.
Goto line	Prompts for a line number and sets the cursor there.
Goto Previous function	Sets the cursor at the beginning of the previous function.
Goto Next function	Sets the cursor at the beginning of the next function.
Goto Bookmark	Prompts you for a bookmark and sets the cursor there.
Bookmark set	Establishes a bookmark at the cursor position.
Bookmark goto	Moves the cursor to a chosen bookmark.
Bookmark goto next	Moves the cursor to the next bookmark.
Bookmark delete	Erases a bookmark.
History	Shows the list of visited functions for the current session.
Functions list	Shows the list of all functions defined in the current file
Structures list	Shows the definitions of all structures defined in the current file
Search a function	Shows the list of all functions defined in all loaded files. It allows for regular expressions for searching.
Search definition	Moves the cursor to the definition of the symbol currently under the cursor.
Symbol usage	Shows all occurrences of a symbol,i.e. where its used. Comments and strings aren’t included in the search.

Project. Project-related options (reading, opening, creating, modifying, etc.) and the general configuration wizard.

Configuration	All the configuration options for the compiler, editor, debugger, linker, help files, etc.
Create	Starts the creation of a new project.
Open	Loads an existing project.
Close	Closes the current project.
Erase	Erases a project you choose.
Add/Delete files	Inserts or deletes files from the current project.
Import	Allows the user to browse for a project file (with the .prj extension), and loads it into the projects list. This closes the current project (if any).
Open all files	Opens all the files defined in the current project.
Workspace	Shows the modules of the current project. You can add/delete modules, switch from one source file to the next, and many other options. You turn on those options using the right mouse click.
After this entry	All user-defined menu commands, added with the add utility option in the configuration tab, start at this point.

·Design. Resource editor.

Open/New	Creates or opens a resource file.
Show directory	Shows all the types of resources defined and each one of the objects.
Symbols	Opens the symbol editing dialog box. With this you can add/change symbols assigned to controls.
Group	Opens the group and hierarchy dialog box. Here you can establish the tab sequence and set the group separators.
New	Inserts a new object.
	dialog	Inserts a new dialog
	menu	Invokes the menu editor with a new menu
	icon	Inserts a new icon
	accelerator	Invokes the accelerators editor with a new accelerator
	bitmap	Invokes the image editor with a new bitmap
	strings	Invokes the string table editor
	version	Invokes the version input dialog
	User defined	Inserts a new user defined resource
Alignment	Aligns the selected objects.
Spacing	Opens the spacing dialog box.
Same size	Resizes the selected controls to the same size of the dominant control.
Buttons	Positions the buttons either at the right or at the bottom.
Test	Starts the dialog box under the test mode
Zoom	Starts the zoom utility.
Config	Opens the configuration dialog box of the resource editor.
Output	Shows the name of the output files.

Compiler: Compiler specific options. Make, Makefile generation, link, debug, execute, etc.

Make	Calls the Make utility to build the current executable. If the Make utility is running, there will be an entry to stop the building process at this point.
Shows results	Shows the results (errors or warnings) of the last compilation, if any.
Link	Calls the link editor.
Generate Makefile	Generates an ASCII text file (Makefile) that specifies the dependencies of the project files to the Make utility.
Rebuild all	Erases all object files and starts a build.
Check syntax	Starts the compiler in check mode and reports results
Debugger	Starts a debugging session.
Breakpoints	Calls up the breakpoint editing dialog box.
Set breakpoint	Sets a breakpoint at the current position.
Execute	Runs the executable of the project. The arguments to the program (if any) are the ones specified in the debugger configuration tab.
Compile	Compiles the current file.

· Debug. This menu option appears when the debugger is active, in the place of the compiler menu, assuming you do not compile when the program is being debugged.

Execute	Continues the execution of the program. Breakpoints remain active.
Step in	If the current line contains a function call, the debugger will step into that function, provided there is debug information for it. If there is no function call, the program is stopped at the next line.
Same level	Continues the execution of the program until it reaches the next source line.
Step out	Continues the execution of the program until it leaves the current function. Breakpoints remain active and can stop the execution of the program before the end of the function is reached.
Run to cursor	Continues the execution of the program until it reaches the line pointed to by the text cursor. If that line is never reached this is equivalent to Execute.
Stop debugging	Stops program execution and returns to the editor.
CPU	Shows the machine register window.
Stack	Shows the execution stack.
Memory	Allows you to inspect memory locations.
Machine instructions	Shows the disassembly window.
Watchs	Shows the watch window.
Evaluate symbol	Shows the symbol evaluation dialog box.
Info	Shows information about the program current running, its threads, its windows, etc.
Restart	Stops the current process, terminates it, and restarts the debugger, stopping at the main or WinMain function.
Break	Immediately stops the execution of the program wherever it is.
Breakpoint	Sets a breakpoint at the current position of the text cursor.
Edit breakpoint	Shows the breakpoint editing dialog box.
Data breakpoint	Allows you to set a breakpoint that will be triggered when the program accesses a certain memory location or variable.

Utils: Several help programs such as diff, generating a hypertext file from a program file, information about variables, structures, etc.

Execute	Runs a specified program.
Diff	Calls up the diff utility to determine the differences between two files or two directories
Profiler	Calls up the profiling utility to determine where your program uses its time.
Analysis	Analyzes the project or a file. The detailed menu options are described below.
Apply patch	Applies a patch file. This option is not currently functioning well. The patch should be generated with the diff option ‘generate patch’.
Database wizard	This will appear if Berkeley DB of Sleepycat Software is installed
Show #ifdefs	Redraws the current file showing inactive lines in gray.
Executable stats	Shows the size of each part of the executable: code, data, etc. The DLLs used are also shown.
Function size stats	Determines all sizes of each function in the executable of the project file, sorts it by size, and displays the result in a normal editor window.

· Analysis. These commands allow you to browse or get other information about a specific file or about the project as a whole.

Import foreign library	Allows the user to read a dll import library in the Microsoft format, and transform it into a library in the lcc format.
Show #includes	Shows all the include files in the current open file. The display is in the output window.
ObjXref	Shows a cross-reference of all object files created by the current project, showing which functions are defined, but not called from other files, for instance, or a graphical plot of the object files relationships: which files call which.
Function tree	Prompts for a function in the current file and shows which functions are called by that function.
Generate HLP	Generates a help file automatically with the definitions of the functions in your program.
Strings	Allows you to automatically replace the character strings in a source file by a reference to either a table or a resource.
File metrics	Shows the software metrics for the current file.
Function metrics	Shows the software metrics for the specified function.
Write prototypes	Writes in a specified file the prototypes for the functions in the current file.
Browse fn defs	Opens a dialog box showing you all defined functions in the files currently opened.
Show globals	Shows the global variables of the current file.
Slice by local	Shows the lines that concern a specific identifier, i.e., a program slice.
File relations	Shows the relationship between two given files.
Audit	Writes a document with all metrics of all loaded functions.

Window: All loaded files are listed here.