<p class="Paragraph">The following provides an overview of the OpenOffice.org Basic-IDE. The IDE is activated as soon as you begin editing a macro.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">The toolbar in the IDE provides various function icons for editing and testing programs. An explanation of these icons can be found in the description of the respective topic in one of the following sections.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">In the Editor window, directly below the Macro toolbar, you can edit the Basic program code. Pay attention to the narrow column at the left - here you can view the breakpoints during a single step process, indicating which part of the program is being executed.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The <span class="T1">Watch</span> is located below the Editor window at the left, and displays the contents of variables or arrays during a single step process. The <span class="T1">Call Stack</span> window to the right provides information about the call hierarchy of SUBS and FUNCTIONS.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The possibilities that this user interface makes available to you in developing programs is described in detail in the following sections.</p>