VisualAge for Java gives you many different ways to look at
your code. This section gives you a brief overview of the primary
windows in VisualAge for Java and tells you how to move from one window to
another.
Every window in VisualAge for Java has a Window menu.
You can move between windows by selecting the window you want from this
menu.
If the window you select is already open, it becomes the active
window. If the window you want is not open, it is opened and becomes
the active window. If you select Switch To in the
Window menu, you can select from any of the windows that are
currently open.
Recently-used windows are stored in a list in the File
menu. If you want to open a window that you recently closed, select it
from the list in the File menu.
In addition to being opened explicitly by you, some windows are also opened
by VisualAge for Java as you perform your development tasks. For
example, suppose you run a program by selecting a class in the Workbench
window and selecting Run from the Selected menu.
If there is an active breakpoint in your program, the Debugger window opens
when the breakpoint is reached. To return to the Workbench window,
select Workbench from the Window menu in the Debugger
window.
You can open these windows from the Window menu:
- Scrapbook: gives you a place to try out code. You
can enter and run code fragments without making them a part of any package,
project, or class.

- Console: displays standard out. It also gives you
an area for entering input to standard in. If more than one thread is
waiting for input from standard in, you can select which thread gets the
input.

- Log: displays messages and warnings from VisualAge for
Java.

- Debugger: displays running threads and the contents of
their run-time stacks. In the Debugger you can suspend and resume
execution of threads, inspect and modify variable values, and set, remove, and
configure breakpoints. The Window menu lets you open the
Debugger browser to the Debug page or the Breakpoints page, or open the
dialogs for setting breakpoints on external class methods and caught
exceptions. For more details, see Debugging.

- Repository Explorer: displays all of the editions of
program elements in the repository. For more details, see Exploring the repository.

In addition to these windows, you can do the following actions from the
Window menu.
- Clone opens a duplicate of the current window. You can
then browse the two windows independently. Changes made to program
elements are reflected in both windows.
- Lock locks open the current window. If you try to close
it, a message box informs you that the window is locked. You must
unlock the window before you can close it.
- Maximize resizes the current window so that it covers the
entire screen.
- Orientation changes the general layout of the panes in the
window. The images in this information, for example, show the
horizontal orientation, which, in the IDE, you can optionally change to a
vertical orientation.
- Show Edition Names enables or disables edition name labels for
program elements.
- Workbench opens (or brings into focus) the Workbench
browser.
