Application perspective

This perspective provides functionality for software engineers to develop software components.

The perspective consists of multiple views and an editor area.

For detailed information on the views in the perspective, see these sections:

These editors can run in the editor area:

Various multipage editors that you can use to edit software components, such as sessions, menus, labels, libraries and messages.
See Multipage Editors.
A script editor that supports the 4GL programming language. A content assistant is available, supporting syntax highlighting and completion of keywords. The editor also supports an outline of the scripts or libraries.
See Script Editor.

For details on the procedure to develop software components, see Developing software components.

This table shows the most important buttons in the perspective's toolbar:


Button	Description
Check Out a Component (Alt+C, Alt+O)	Checks out the component you selected in the Activity Explorer.
Check In a Component (Alt+C, Alt+I)	Checks in the component you selected in the Activity Explorer.
Undo Check Out a Component (Alt+C, Alt+U)	Cancels the check-out for the component you selected in the Activity Explorer.
Select a Software Component (Alt+Q)	Starts the Select Component(s) dialog box. See Select Component(s).
Create a New Software Component	Starts the Create a New Infor LN Software Component wizard. See Create a New Infor LN Software Component wizard.
Create a New Activity (Ctrl+Alt+N)	Starts the New Activity dialog box. See Create a new Activity.
Debug	Use this option to debug LN sessions. See Debugging LN sessions.
Run	Use this option to run LN sessions. See Running LN sessions.
Verify Component	Starts the verification process for the component you selected in the Activity Explorer. See Verifying software components.