View menu

The View menu provides commands relating to the display and behaviour of screen elements, and allows you to view information about your program and the emulated Spectrum.

Toolbar

Shows or hides the toolbar which contains shortcut buttons to the more common of BasinC's editor operations.

Status Bar

Shows or hides the status bar at the bottom of the editor window.

Syntax Helper

Shows or hides the syntax helper.This is a useful tool which evaluates the "correctness" of your program line as you type - errors are highlighted in red, enabling you to spot errors before you commit the line to memory.

Character Ruler

Shows or hides the character ruler.

Program Information

This window will display information about your program - how large it is in memory, how many variables you currently have declared and their usage of available memory. Also how much memory remains available to you for programming. Bear in mind that the system variable RAMTOP is used to calculate this figure.

ZX Printer Output Window

Shows or hides the ZX printer output window, from where you can send the current output to a file on disk (in windows .bmp format) or to your real PC printer.

Command History

Shows or hides the Command History window - contains a list of all direct commands which have been entered into BasinC for this session.

Last Error

Displays the most recent BASIC error message and its description, in the error dialog.

Debug Windows

Opens a submenu that allows you to show or hide the debug windows. See the section entitled "debugging your programs" for a more in-depth discussion of this powerful aspect of BasinC.

• Variables: Shows or hides the Variables window, which lists all variables currently declared in memory. Also provides the means to alter a variable's contents whilst debugging a program, and to set a watch a variable for changes.
• System Variables: Shows or hides the System Variables window, which (like the variables window) provides methods to edit their contents.
• Breakpoints: Shows or hides the Breakpoints window, where you can manage any breakpoints you might have set up.
• Watches: Shows or hides the Watch List, which like the Breapoints option above allows you to manage any watches you have set.
• GO SUB Stack: Shows or hides the GO SUB stack window, listing all return points within your program. This is useful for tracking down subroutines and nesting that has gone awry.
• Memory Map: Shows or hides the Memory Map window. This shows a graphical representation, with highlighting options, of the current state of the emulated Spectrum's memory. Although not strictly a tool, it can be useful to see in real-time how your program uses the memory it allocates for variables and other such operations.
• Memory Viewer: Shows or hides the Memory Viewer window. From here you can inspect the currently emulated Memory space in a hex-editor format, in order to see how the Spectrum manages your program at the byte level. It contains tools which allow you to track down lines of tokenised code in BASIC memory, and to inspect variables in the VARS space.
• Log Window: Shows or hides the Log window. Certain operations can produce log messages on completion, and one of the REM Directives can produce user-configurable log entres. You can view them in the log window.
• Profile Results Window:

  Displays the Profile Results window, where you can view the results of any code profiling you may have performed as your program ran.

• CPU Window

  Halts emulation (if your program is running) and shows the CPU window - a debugger for use in locating bugs in your machine code programs.

Display Window

Opens a submenu that controls the size and visibility of the display window.

• Visible: Determines whether the display window is shown or hidden. This is useful for viewing output when editing, as the window will hide behind the editor if emulation is not running.
• 100% / 200%: Specifies the size of the display window.
• Force 1:1 Aspect: Maintains correct aspect ration (width to height) and thus prevents distortion of the image as you resize the window. This for example, keeps a circle onscreen looking circular rather than elliptical when sizing. (this is the same option as Maintain Aspect Ratio on the Display tab).

Expression Evaluator

Shows or hides the Expression Evaluator window, where you can enter a BASIC expression and view its result.