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Cadence SKILL IDE User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, August 2023

SKILL IDE User Interface

The SKILL IDE interface is user-friendly and intuitive. It consists of menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and windows that help you control your debugging operations. Therefore, you no longer need to learn complex debugging commands.

The following table describes the elements of the SKILL IDE interface:

SKILL IDE User Interface Components

Menu Bar

Provides menus for basic file operations as well as editing, debugging, and tool control.

The menu bar contains commands that perform an operation, display a cascade menu, or open a dialog box.

Toolbars

Contains buttons that provide quick access to the commonly used commands in the menu bar.

Tab bar

Displays the currently open files in tabs. It also contains buttons to help manage your tabs.

Source Code Pane

Displays the file being edited or debugged. If line numbering is enabled, line numbers are displayed to the left of the source code pane against each line of code. Syntax highlighting is enabled for the code in this pane for convenient code inspection.

Assistants Pane

Displays the currently enabled window assistants. You can display the Breakpoints, Stack, Trace, Method Browser, Class Browser, Lint Manager, Finder, Code Browser, Profiler, or Step Result assistants. You can also use the Show All and Hide All options to simultaneously display or hide all window assistants.

Status Bar

Displays the window number for each file tab at the bottom of the SKILL IDE window. For example, 1(2), where 1 is the session window number for the SKILL IDE, and 2 displayed (inside the parenthesis) is the window number for the open file.

It also displays the line and column number of the current cursor position.

Related Topics

How SKILL IDE Works

Starting SKILL IDE

SKILL IDE Menu Commands

SKILL IDE Assistants

Managing SKILL IDE Toolbars

Managing SKILL IDE Tool Assistants


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