Menu
Options
Index
File
- New
- Open
- Close
- Close All - Closes all the windows open in the editor
- Save
- Save as
- Save All - Save all the files from the current project
including the project file.
- Find in files
- Add to project - Adds the current file to the project
list.
- Print
- Print Setup
- Exit - Exit the application.
Edit
- Undo - Undoes the previous action in the editor. Refer
to options/Edit for setting undo buffer size
- Redo - Redo the last undo.
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste
- Go to - Displays a dialog to input the go to line
number
- Find - Find a given string in the current file. Please
refer to Find in Files
for searching multiple files.
- Find next - Find next will find the next occurrence of
the previous search text.
- Replace - Replace a given text with another text.
Replace all button in this dialog will replace all the
text in the current file if there is no selection in the
file. If there is any selection in the file Replace all
will replace text only in the selected text. Both Replace
and Replace All can be undone by pressing CTRL+Z or Undo.
- Bookmark
- Next bookmark
View
- Toolbar - Toggle the toolbar display.
- Statusbar - Toggle the Statusbar display.
- Debugbar - Toggle the Debugbar display.
- Browserbar - Toggle the Browserbar display.
- Profile Bar - Toggle the Profile Bar display.
- Project - Toggle the visibility of the Project
Window.
- Float/Dock Project - Floats or docks the project tab
window.
- Dock Right/Dock Left - Docks the project tab left or
right.
- Output - Toggle the Output window.
- Float Output/Dock Output - Floats or docks the output
window.
Project
- New - Create a new project.
- Open - Open existing project
- Close - Close current project
- Save - Save current project settings.
- Class View - Toggles Project Tree between
package/class view and file view.
- Parse All - Parses all the project files. This option
can be used if Parse on Project open is disabled.
- Add file - Add file to the current project
- Add Directory - Adds an entire directory (including
subdirectories) of java files to the project. Commands
will add the hierarchy of the directory also.
- Add Default HTML - Adds a default HTML file to the
project with an Applet Tag and a class name only if the
main class file is identified. If the main file is not
identified then the class name can be filled in manually.
- Import Kawa Project - Adds all the files including any
folders from one Kawa project to other.
- Classpath
- Compiler Options
- Toggle Compiler - If the alternate compiler path has
been filled under compiler options then Toggle compiler
will check/uncheck the compiler between Javac and the
alternate compiler without having to display the compiler
options dialog.
- Interpreter Options
- Javadoc Options -
Please refer to JavaDoc help for more details on all the
different switches.
- Breakpoint List -
Displays all the list of Breakpoints for this project.
Selecting Goto for a breakpoint will open the appropriate
file and select the breakpoint line.
Build
- Compile - Compiles the current Java file. The file is
saved automatically if needed.
- Compile(*.java) - Issues "javac *.java"
command. Please refer to How
to work with Packages for more details on
these options.
- RMI Compile - Please refer to RMIC
option for more details on this command.
- Rebuild All - Issues one compile command for all the
Java files in the project.
- Rebuild Dirty - Rebuilds modified files in the project
only. Please refer to How to compile modified
Java files only for more details on this
command.
- Javadoc - Javadoc the current open Java file.
- Javadoc All - Creates Javadoc for all the project
files.
- Javadoc Folder - Javadoc the entire directory or
folder. This is helpful to create tree.htm, packages.htm
and index.htm files, which are created automatically with
this command. The project does not have to be open for
this command to be enabled however if a project is open
the current project Javadoc options are applied. This
command displays a directory picker dialog box to
indicate the directory to javadoc.
- Make Jar - Opens a make Jar Dialog. Please refer to How to make a Jar file for
more details on this feature.
- Stop Build - Stops the Build (compile and javadoc) if
running.
- Stop Run - Stops the running application or applet.
- Stop Debug - Stops the Debug process if running.
Sometimes if this does not work it is necessary to kill
the JDB process manually from the task manager.
- Run - Run the application or applet. Please refer to How to Run an applet or
application for more details on which class or
HTML file is selected for run
- Debug
- Run - Starts the Kawa native debugger
- Cont - Continue execution if at a breakpoint.
- Step - Singe Step to next execution line
- Step Over - Issues next command from JDB.
- Step Up - Issues step up command from JDB.
- Exit - Exits the debugger if still active.
- JDB Debug - Starts the JDB debugger wrapper.
- Breakpoint Set/Unset - Sets or removes the breakpoint
at the current line.
Packages
- Add Java - Displays the dialog to adds new Java files
to package hierarchy
- Add Class - Displays the dialog to adds new class
files to package hierarchy
- Add Zip/Jar - Displays the dialog to adds new zip or
jar files to package hierarchy
- Delete - Please refer to Packages Tab
- Find Class - Please refer to Packages Tab
- Find Interface - Please refer to Packages Tab
- Classpath
Info
- Add Folder - Please refer to Help Tab
- Add File(s) - Please refer to Help Tab
- Delete- - Please refer to Help Tab
Customize
Window
- Cascade
- Tile Horizontal
- Tile Vertical
- Arrange icons
- Help Window - Selects or displays the help window.
- Output Window - Selects or displays the output window.
- Search Results - Selects or displays the Find in Files
results window.
- Project Tab - Selects or displays the Project tab
window.
- All the output redirected child processes and editor
windows are listed at the end of this menu item.
Help
- Contents - Opens Kawa Contents file
- Search
- Keyboard shortcuts - Displays all the keyboard
shortcuts defined under Kawa.
- Next - Displays the next help file from the cache
- Previous - Displays the previous file from the cache
- History - Displays the help history items
- Support - Displays the Kawa support information
- Kawa Homepage - Loads the Kawa homepage in a browser
if one is setup.
- Whats new - Displays the what's new page for new
features in this release.
- Tip of the Day - Displays the tip of the day dialog.
This dialog uses the tips.txt file in the Kawa directory.
- Register
- About Kawa - Displays the Kawa version number and
copyright information.