Common window features

ModelSim's graphic interface provides many features that add to its usability; features common to many of the windows are described below.

Feature	Feature applies to these windows
Quick access toolbars	Main, Source, and Wave windows
Drag and Drop	Dataflow, List, Signals, Source, Structure, Variables, and Wave windows
Command history	Main window command line
Automatic window updating	Dataflow, Process, Signals, and Structure windows
Finding names, searching for values, and locating cursors	various windows
Sorting HDL items	Process, Signals, Source, Structure, Variables and Wave windows
Multiple window copies	all windows except the Main window
Menu tear off	all windows
Customizing menus and buttons	all windows
Combining signals into a user-defined bus	List and Wave windows
Tree window hierarchical view	Structure, Signals, Variables, and Wave windows

• Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete into any entry box by clicking the right mouse button in the entry box.
  
• Standard cut/copy/paste shortcut keystrokes - ^X/^C/^V - will work in all entry boxes.
• When the focus changes to an entry box, the contents of that box are selected (highlighted). This allows you to replace the current contents of the entry box with new contents with a simple paste command, without having to delete the old value.
• Dialog boxes will appear on top of their parent window (instead of the upper left corner of the screen)
• The Main window includes context menus that are accessed by clicking the right mouse button.
  
• The middle mouse button will allow you to paste the following into the transcript window:

-text currently selected in the transcript window,

-a current primary X-Windows selection (can be from another application), or

-contents of the clipboard.

Note: Selecting text in the transcript window makes it the current primary XWindows selection. This way you can copy transcript window selections to other XWindows windows (xterm, emacs, etc.).



• The Edit > Paste operation in the transcript window will ONLY paste from the clipboard.
• All menus highlight their accelerator keys.

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