Menu Bar Commands

The menu bar is divided into the operation groups, which are:

  • File – Management of environment usage actions and properties

  • Edit – Modification actions

  • View – Management of the displaying options

  • Insert – Management of environment content

  • Tools – Tools to modify NCF product, application, and message selection and COM port check-up

  • Help – NCF Help and About NCF.

Each of the previous menus includes sub operations.

File

  • New – Creates a new environment

  • Open – Opens a file system dialog, from which you can select an environment to be opened

  • Close – Closes the environment that is currently open

  • Save – Saves the environment; acts like Save as if the environment has not been previously saved

  • Save as – Opens a file system dialog, from which you can select a suitable folder and give a filename for the environment; Saves the environment with given information

  • Start Environment – Starts the environment and products added to it (if products are defined to be started at environment start-up)

  • Stop Environment – Stops the environment and its products (if products are defined to be stopped at environment shutdown)

  • Start Product – Starts the selected product in the environment

  • Stop Product – Stops the selected product in the environment

  • Properties | Product Properties – A product properties dialog opens.

  • Properties | Log – A log properties dialog opens.

  • Exit – Closes NCF Full and the products that have been started in NCF. NCF Lite remains on.

Edit

  • Cut – Cuts the selected object

  • Copy – Copies the selected object

  • Paste – Pastes the previously cut or copied object

  • Delete – Removes the selected object

  • Delete from Product Structure – Deletes the object that is selected in the product structure

View
  • Log Details… – Displays details of the selected log entries

  • BT Command Details… – Displays details of the selected Bluetooth log entries

  • Product Structure – Displays the product structure

  • Log – Displays the log pane

  • Clear Log – Clears all log messages

  • Product Attributes – You can select which attributes are displayed in the connection of the products in the environment pane. All panes and attributes are displayed by default. So if you want some of them to not be displayed, remove the selection check.

Insert

  • Product to Environment – Adds a product, which has been selected from the structure, to the environment

  • Application to Product – Adds the selected application on a selected product

  • Message to Product – Adds the selected message to a product that is selected from the opened dialog of environment’s products

  • One-way Connection – After this selection, two products can be connected with a one-way connection

  • Two-way Connection – After this selection, two products can be connected with a two-way connection

Tools

  • Add Product Integration – Opens a dialog for adding ready-made integrations to the product structure

  • Create New Product Integration – Starts a product integration wizard

  • Add Application – Opens the file system for adding an application to the NCF

  • Add Message – Opens the file system for adding a message to the NCF

  • Check COM Ports | Environment… – Checks COM ports of the products that have been added to the environment

  • Check COM Ports | All Products… – Checks COM ports of all the products that use COM ports

Help
  • NCF Help – Opens the NCF Help

  • About – Displays information of NCF