Interface top bar items

Make Make Exe
Begin build phase according to current interface settings.

Save Save settings
Popup menu of potential save options.

 Browse      : File save dialog request.

 Clipboard
Dump formatted config options to the clipboard.
(script embedding) : Does not include A3C_IN option.
(config embedding) : Includes 
A3C_IN option.

Last Settings.a3c :: Temporary config options place holder.
Settings are saved here when the main A3C window is closed.

Current source file : Input file name when specified.

Current config/template file : Primary file containing build options.

Macro Macro
Popup menu of internal, pre and user defined AC macros for
use in build options and menus. After selection the macro name
will be copied to the clipboard not its content.

 Internal sub menus

 Construction : Build specific macros.
 Directories  : Build and AutoCamo specific macros.
 Misc         : Misc internals.
 Explorer     : List explorer macros.

 Environment  : Environment variables instead of macros.
 Images       : Kit menu text token for internal icons.

 External menu items
 All other menu items are loaded from separate config files.

Kit Kit
Popup menu of pre and user defined items for running programs or commands in general.

Help Help
Popup menu of pre and user defined items for running programs or commands related to displaying various help information.


Sub window navigation toolbar buttons

Main Main
Options Options
Resources Resources
Execute Execute
VersionInfo Version
Patches Patches
Log Log

List Explorer List explorer
Shell Explorer Shell explorer
Console Console
Help Help


Input image

Left Click
 Display the 'Input' popup menu for loading build files.

Right Click
 Display sub window navigation popup menu.

Drag and drop
 One or two files that contain build options to load them.

Build list item controls
The following sub windows each contain a build list item control, Resources - Execute - Version info & patches.

Left click selects an item in the list.

Double left click an item in the list to export it to the edit areas.

Right click anywhere in the list control to display its popup menu.

If an item is selected or unselected

 Add to Top
 Add edit area info as a list entry to the top.

 Add to Bottom
 Add edit area info as a list entry to the bottom.

If an item is selected

 Add Above
 Add edit area info as a list entry above current item.

 Add Below
 Add edit area info as a list entry below current item.

 Update
 Modify current item with edit areas that are not blank.

 Replace
 Overwrite current item with all current edit area info.

 Delete
 Remove the current item from the list.

 Copy as config line
 Clipboard current fields as a build config line.

 Copy into Elements menu
 Save current fields as a sub window specific menu item.

Drag and drop a config file to a list control will load the
grouped options within that are related to that particular
sub window.

Toolbar buttons

Elements
Popup menu of sub window specific elements for optional use
in build groups.

 Internal menu items

 Copy into elements menu
 Create or update a sub window specific element menu item.

 Remove from elements menu
 Remove a user defined element menu item that has the same
 menu text as the current description field text.

 Copy as config line
 Dump edit field text to the clipboard as build group item.

 Clear
 Empty element edit fields.

 External menu items

 All other menu items are pre or user defined element
 templates that populate the edit fields when selected.

List Import
Load sub window specific list items from a file.

 Browse    : File open dialog request
 Clipboard : Obtain from clipboard text dumped to a temp file.

 All other menu items are .a3c template files detected in the
 A3C sub directory.

Clear
Remove all, unchecked or checked items from the current list.

Copy cfg group
Copy all, unchecked or checked items to the clipboard with or
without the config group header.