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The CE_HDL GUI.
After starting the CeHDL tool, a GUI will popup, similar to the one shown on the right.
In the Windows version, a debug console will also popup. This window can be minimized to keep it out of the way, or it can be disabled following these steps described in this section:[ Disabling The Windows Debug Console ]
In the Linux version, the console will not be present, but debug messages will be output to the window where projmgr was started
The GUI has 3 main sections:
- The Top Menu Bar
- The HDL Tool Selection Tree
- The Status Window
Top Menu Bar
The Top Menu Bar consists of a Config Menu, a License Menu and the Help Menu
Config Menu
The Config Menu deals with the CONFIGURATION SETTINGS (CSETS) for the tool. Background on CSETS can be found here: Configuration Settings/wiki/spaces/DD/pages/4111975
View/Set All Configuration Settings
- Pops up a tabbed menu with all the hidden settings for each tool
Search for Configuration Settings
- Pops up a gui to let the user enter a search pattern to find matching settings
- If any settings match, another window will popup with all the matched Config settings
Save All Configuration
- Will overwrite local config file with the settings for every defined configuration setting
Save Minimal Configuration
- Will write a Configuration file containing only those Config Settings that do not match their defined default values.
License Menu (Note this was added to CE-HDL after the v18.10.1 release)
Print License
- This will print the details of the current license to the status window
Request License
- Pops up a Gui to enable the user to request a license from CadEnhance.
- When finished, a lic_request.txt file will be created which the user will need to email to lic_request@cadEnhance.com
Set License File
- This lets the user choose where the License file exists (and sets the CE_LIC_FILE ENV variable)
- If a Flexera License is used this should point to the server which hosts the Flexera license daemon.
Test License Checkout
- This will attempt to checkout a license from the configured CE_LIC_FILE
View License Terms
- This will popup an acrobat reader with the current License Terms File which is stored in the CE_ROOT_DIR/license directory
Help Menu
Online User Guides
- Takes user to top level CadEnhance online documentation page (from where you can easily browse through all the CE-TOOL documentation)
CadEnhance Video Channel
- Takes user to CadEnhance screencast Video Collection
Online Problem Reporting
Takes user to CadEnhance problem reporting website
- About
- Shows the tool version
Hdl Tool Selection
Align Launcher
- double click to start Align Tool
PinWire Launcher
- double click to start PinWire tool
- Refer to the The PinWire Gui section for details
Status Window
- This window shows the progress of the startup and communication between CE-HDL and AllegroHDL
- Filenames and directories are shown as blue underlined hyperlinks that the user can double-click to open a file or ctrl-click to open a file-browser starting in the directory where the file lives
- There are 3 main message types in the status window STAT, DBG and WARN
- STAT messages provide progress information from at a high level.
- DBG messages provide highly detailed information and by default, they are not displayed in the status window, but they can be enabled with the DBG check box.
- WARN messages are printed in red bold font and typically show abnormal status.
- The Status Window can be cleared using the Clear Status Button
- The open Status File button can be used to see all the DBG, STAT and WARN messages in a text editor for easy searching
