Using the menu

The top-level menu contains seven choices:

 

 

File Edit Scale View Run Window Help


 

The File menu contains the following submenu:

 

 

New creates a new flowchart.

Open opens a previously saved flowchart from disk.

Save saves the current flowchart to disk.

Save As saves the current flowchart as a different name to disk.

 

Compile  If compile is selected, then the user will be prompted for a filename to save the compiled flowchart.  A compiled flowchart cannot be viewed or edited, only run.  The compiled version of a program runs much faster than a graphical version, but it cannot be executed symbol by symbol, it cannot be paused, and it doesn't display variables in the watch window.  If you ask to compile your flowchart, be sure you do not overwrite the non-compiled version with the compiled version, because compilation cannot be undone.

 

Page Setup customizes the display for printing.

Print Preview displays a preview of how the flowchart will appear when printed.

Print prints the current flowchart.

 

Print to Clipboard saves a bitmap image of the current flowchart to the clipboard, allowing easy pasting of the image into other applications.

 

Exit exits the program.

 

A history list of the last several flowchart files accessed is also displayed in the File menu.

 


 

The Edit menu contains the following submenu:

 

 

Undo reverts the flowchart back before the last change was made.

Redo cancels the previous undo operation.

Comment allows the user to add a comment to a symbol.

Cut, Copy, and Delete all function as expected on any selected symbols (those currently colored red)

Paste can be performed only after the user has specified an insertion point with a left mouse click.  Note that when the cursor is at an insertion point, the cursor will change to .  After the insertion point identification and selection of Edit-Paste, the symbol(s) earlier copied or cut to the clipboard will be inserted.

Select All allows the user to select the entire program for copying, cutting, etc.

 


 

The Scale menu allows the user to change to scaling factor of the Workspace.

 


 

The View menu contains the following submenu:

 

 

 

All Text forces all text in each symbol to be displayed completely.

Truncated only displays the amount of text that will fit inside each symbol.

No text hides the text in each symbol.

 

Comments toggles the display of comments in the Workspace window.

 

Variables toggles the display of the watch window.  For faster execution, turn off variables and move the slider on the toolbar to the far right.  For fastest execution, run a compiled version of the program.

 

Expand all expands all loop and selection structures which had been collapsed.

 

Collapse all collapses all loop and selection structures to minimize the size of the chart.

 


 

The Run menu contains the following submenu:

 

 

Step executes through one shape in a flowchart.  Pressing F10 will also execute the current shape.

 

Execute to Completion runs the entire program until it terminates.

 

Reset halts program execution and clears the value of all variables.

 

Reset/Execute halts program execution, clears the value of all variables, and restarts execution from the beginning.

 

Pause temporarily halts the execution of a program until execution is resumed by the user.

 

Clear all Breakpoints removes all currently set breakpoints to allow the current program to execute until it terminates.

 


 

The Window menu contains the following submenu:

 

 

Tile Vertical puts the Raptor Workspace Window and the Raptor Master Console window side-by-side on the Windows desktop.

 

Tile Horizontal puts the Raptor Workspace Window above the Raptor Master Console window on the Windows desktop.

 


 

The Help menu contains the following submenu:

 

 

About gives the version of Raptor currently running.

 

General Help opens the Raptor Help Window.

 

Show Log displays a history of all editing and saving activity on the current Raptor program.

 

Count Symbols displays in the Master Console the number of symbols in the current Raptor program.