New ↔

ALT + Shift + N

allows creating new projects and programs as well as different types of source files and forms:

Open File...

allows opening any files stored on your file system for editing

Close

Ctrl + W

closes the active editor

Close All

Ctrl + Shift + W

closes all open editor

Save ↔

Ctlr + S

saves the contents of the active editor

Save As...

allows saving the contents of the active editor with another name or to another folder existing in the workspace

Save All ↔

Ctlr + Shift + S

saves the contents of all open editors

Revert

reverts the unsaved contents of the active editor (replaces it with the previously saved one)

Move

allows moving files and folders to other locations from the Project Explorer view

Rename

F2

allows changing names of files or folders selected in Project Explorer and 4GL project views

Refresh

F5

refreshes the selected resource (= synchronizes it with the contents stored on the file system)

Convert

Line Delimiters To

changes the line delimiters for the selected files (the change occurs immediately and do not need saving the file). To return to the previous delimiter, you have to select the sub-,emu option once again:

Print

Ctlr + P

allows sending the contents of the active editor to a selected printer (the Print dialog is opened):

Switch Workspace

allows switching to another workspace or creating a new one (LyciaStudio is restarted):

Restart

restarts LyciaStudio (with the same workspace)

Import...

starts the Import wizard for adding new resources to your workspace

Export...

starts the Export wizard for exporting the resources from LyciaStudio

Properties

Alt + Enter

opens the Properties window for the selected project, program, or file:

<latest files opened>

displays the list of the files most recently opened in LyciaStudio:

Exit

closes LyciaStudio

Undo ↔

Ctrl + Z

reverses the most recent editing action

Redo ↔

Ctrl + Y

reapplies the editing action which has been recently reversed by the Undo action

Cut

Ctrl + X

removes the selected text from the editor and keeps it on the clipboard

Copy

Ctrl + C

copies the selected text to the clipboard

Paste

Ctrl + V

inserts the text from the clipboard to the editor at the cursor position

Delete

Delete

allows deleting the selected project, program, or file from the file system  (needs additional confirmation). When applied to file, provides two options - deleting as a program requirement and/or from the file system

Select All

Ctrl + A

selects all the object in the currently active view or the whole contents of the currently active editor

Find/Replace

Ctrl + F

opens the Find/Replace window in order to search for and/or replace an expression in the active editor:

Find Next

looks for the next occurrence of the selected text or the text found during the most recent Find/Replace operation

Find Previous

looks for the previous occurrence of the selected text or the text found during the most recent Find/Replace operation

Incremental

Find Next

enables incremental search for the next occurrence of the typed text: In the incremental search mode, the cursor jumps to the next exact match in the active editor immediately after you typed a part of the looked-for expression (thus, you don't have to type the whole expression):

after typing I in:

after typing IN in:

after typing IND in:

With Incremental Find Next, you can use ↑ and ↓ keys to navigate matches and ←, →, Esc, or Enter keys to cancel the search.

Incremental

Find Previous

enables incremental search for the previous occurrence of the typed text.

With Incremental Find Next, you can use ↑ and ↓ keys to navigate matches and ←, →, Esc, or Enter keys to cancel the search.

Add Bookmark...

adds a bookmark to the selected code line

Add Task...

adds a task to the selected code line

Word Completion

provides variants to complete the word being typed to the active editor

Quick Fix

Ctrl + 1

suggests corrections to the words that are considered incorrect by LyciaStudio:

Content Assist

Ctrl + Space

gives access to the prepared list of all statements, functions, and keywords of the Querix fgl:

Set Encoding...

allows changing the encoding used to read and write the file to the active editor:

By default, the files are encoded in UTF-8. Other possible encoding variants include ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE:

Go Into

refocuses the active Project Explorer view so that the folder of your current selection becomes the root one:

You can use the button to move to the up level and the Back to Workspace button to go back to the workspace (as is by default):

Go To

allows moving between the displayed files:

In the XML editor, more options are available:

Matching Character - the cursor moves to the second character of the pair of tags, e.g., from < to >.

Next Sibling - the cursor moves to the next sibling element in the XML code, e.g., from one <GridRowDefinition> to another.

Previous Sibling - the cursor moves to the previous sibling element in the XML code.

Open Task ↔

Ctrl + F12

allows opening tasks stored in the task repository

Activate Task

Ctrl + F9

allows activating tasks stored in the task repository

Deactivate Task

Ctrl + Shift + F9

allows deactivating tasks stored in the task repository

Open Model Element

Ctrl + Shift + F3

allows opening and creating model elements:

Show In

Alt + Shift + W

allows opening the selected file or folder in the file system or viewing its properties:

Next ↔

Next Annotation

Ctrl + .

navigates to the next item in a list or table in the active view

Previous ↔

Previous Annotation

Ctrl + ,

navigates to the previous item in a list or table in the active view

Last Edit Location ↔

Ctrl + Q

moves you to the latest edited place (if the latest edited file was closed, it will open and the cursor will move to the necessary line)

Go To Line

Ctrl + L

allows you to move to a certain line within the active editor:

You'll get the corresponding message if you try to enter the line number out if the current range:

Back ↔

Alt + Left

allows moving to the previous resource viewed in the code editor:

Forward ↔

Alt + Right

undoes the effect of the previous Back command (i.e. allows moving to the resource you viewed before going Back):

Search... ↔

Ctrl + H

allows searching for the necessary text, files, and plug-ins based on the specified criteria:

File...

allows searching for the necessary file or its text in the File Search tab of the Search window

Text

allows searching for the definite text in a file, project, working set, or your whole workspace:

Search starts when a piece of text is selected in the code editor. Otherwise, you get the corresponding message:

Open Project

opens the selected project:

 Only closed projects can be opened: Otherwise, the menu option is not available:

Close Project

closes the selected project (only open projects can be closed - the same as Open Project)

Build All ↔

Ctrl + B

performs the incremental build of all the projects in your workspace, i.e. builds and compiles all the resources in the workspace which are somehow affected by the changes performed since the latest incremental build (the option is available only if the auto-build is switched off)

Build Project

performs the incremental build of the currently selected project, i.e. builds and compiles all the resources in the project which are somehow affected by the changes performed since the latest incremental build (the option is available only if the auto-build is switched off)

Build Working Set

performs the incremental build of all the projects added to a definite working set, i.e. builds and compiles all the resources in the working set which are somehow affected by the changes performed since the latest incremental build (the option is available only if the auto-build is switched off):

Clean...

removes all the building results from the output folder of the current project (if the auto-build is on, full build is invoked after cleaning):

Build Automatically ↔

switches on/off the auto-build (with auto-build, the selected project is built automatically after you introduce any changes).

When auto-build is on, you get the corresponding mark next to it

You can toggle auto-build preferences in the Preferences window:

Window → Preferences → General → Workspace

Properties

opens the Properties window for the selected project:

Resume ↔

resumes the debugging session after it was suspended

Suspend ↔

holds off the debugging session and enables user interaction

Terminate ↔

stops the debugging session

Disconnect ↔

terminates the debugging session and resumes all the suspended threads.

The program continues to execute but it cannot be suspended and executed step by step - it can only be terminated.

Step Into ↔

moves the debugger to the next line of the program (in the debug mode).

After any function call, Step Into sends debugger into the function, and it will leave the function only after every function line is debugged.

Step Into Selection

steps into the statement (function or method) selected in the editor

Step Over ↔

after any function call, moves the debugger to the line that follows the breakpoint without stepping into the function

Step Return ↔

steps out of the current method or function (i.e. when in any function, moves the debugger to the line following this function's call)

Run to Line

executes the program to the line currently selected in the editor

Use Step Filters ↔

Shift + F5

specifies whether step filters will be used in the Debug view

Run Last Launched

Ctrl + F11

runs the most recently run application

Debug Last Launched

F11

runs the application most recently run in the debug mode (= debugs the most recently debugged application)

Run History

shows the list of the most recently run applications:

Run As... ↔

allows choosing the graphical client - LyciaDesktop or LyciaWeb - to run the application with:

Run Configurations...

allows creating, managing, and removing run configurations:

Debug History

shows the list of the most recently debugged applications:

Debug As... ↔

allows choosing the graphical client - LyciaDesktop or LyciaWeb - to debug the application with:

Debug Configurations...

→

allows creating, managing, and removing debug configurations:

Toggle Breakpoint

Ctrl + Shift + B

toggles (= adds) a breakpoint to the selected line of the code (the type of this breakpoint depends on what breakpoint type is currently used)

Toggle Line Breakpoint

toggles (= adds) a line breakpoint to the selected line of the code

Toggle Method Breakpoint

toggles (= adds) a method breakpoint to the selected method declaration

Toggle Watchpoint

toggles (= adds) a watchpoint to the selected line of the code

Skip All Breakpoints ↔

Ctrl + Alt + B

when selected, tells the debugger to disregard (= skip) all the breakpoints.

In this case, all the breakpoint marks are changed to :

Remove All Breakpoints

removes all the breakpoints from your workspace (needs additional confirmation)

Breakpoint Types

allows selecting the type of the breakpoints among the available ones:

External Tools ↔

allows adding, managing, manipulating, and removing external tools used for running and debugging applications:

New Window

opens a new LyciaStudio window

Editor

allows splitting the code editor into two parts (horizontally and vertically oriented) or cloning the currently open page:

Hide Toolbar

allows hiding (and showing when hidden) the main toolbar of the LyciaStudio window:

Show View

allows opening additional views:

Perspective

allows opening and managing perspectives:

Open Perspective ↔ - allows opening other (non-default) perspectives.

Customize Perspective - allows customizing the current perspective by customizing its toolbar, menus, and shortcuts.

Save Perspective As - allows saving your customized perspective under a new or one of the already existing names.

Reset Perspective - reverts the changes introduced to a perspective.

Close Perspective - closes the current perspective.

Close All Perspectives - closes all perspectives including the default one.

Navigation

allows navigating between perspectives, views, and editors:

Show System Menu - shows the title bar menu of the view or editor,

Show View Menu - shows the pull-down menu of the view or editor,

Quick Access ↔ - allows quickly getting to a view or its preferences by typing its name,

Maximize Active View or Editor - makes the active element occupy the whole LyciaStudio window (excluding the menu bar and the main toolbar) and minimizes all the other elements; when pressed for the second time in a row (i.e. when the active element is maximized already) reverts the changes,

Minimize Active View or Editor - minimizes the active element:

Activate Editor - makes the current editor active,

Next Editor - allows activating the next (or any other by your choice) open editor from the list of the most recently used editors:

Previous Editor - allows activating the previous (or any other by your choice) open editor from the list of the most recently used editors,

Switch to Editor - allows switching to any one or more open editors by your choice as well as activate, close, and save them:

Next View - allows activating the next (or any other by your choice) open view from the list of the most recently used views:

Previous View - allows activating the previous (or any other by your choice) open view from the list of the most recently used views,

Next Perspective - allows activating the next (or any other by your choice) open perspective from the list of the most recently used perspectives:

Previous Perspective - allows activating the previous (or any other by your choice) open perspective from the list of the most recently used perspectives.

Preferences

opens the Preferences window

Online Help ↔

launches the index of Lycia online documentation in the default browser

Help Contents

provides access to the built-in help

Dynamic Help

provides access to the built-in help

Key Assist...

Ctrl + Shift + L

shows the prepared list of all LyciaStudio hot keys in the bottom right corner of the LyciaStudio window:

Report Bug or

Enhancement

allows reporting bugs or requesting enhancements via one of the available support providers

Check for Updates

goes through the list of available software sites and checks whether any updates are available

Install New Software...

opens a dialog allowing you to install additional software

Installation Details

opens the LyciaStudio Installation Details window where you can learn about the LyciaStudio configuration, get details about the software installed (including plug-ins), view installation history and features

About LyciaStudio

opens the window displaying basic LyciaStudio information like its build and version and allows access the installation details:

Occurrences in File

Ctrl + Shift + A

finds all the lines which included the selected text and displays this information to the Search view and in the code editor:

Toggle Comment

Ctrl + Shift + C

automatically make the line with the cursor a comment (comments the line):

Add Block Comment

Ctrl + Shift + /

adds a comment block - <!--  --> - to the cursor location:

Remove Block Comment

Ctrl + Shift + \

removes the comment block so that only commented text remains:

Shift Left

in the line with the cursor, moves the text to the left by the indent size:

Shift Right

in the line with the cursor, moves the text to the right by the indent size:

Cleanup Document...

automatically correts certain minor mistakes in the XML code:

In the screenshots below, Cleanup Document... was used to insert the missing closing tag - </GridColumnDefinition> - and add quotation marks to the attribute value:

Format

Ctrl + Shift + F

applies formatting to the whole XML document:

Format Active Elements

Ctrl + I

applies formatting to the active element (tag) of the  XML document:

Turn off Grammar Constrains

allows skipping the grammar constrains defined by the XML scheme when editing an associated XML file

Reload Dependencies

updates XML files after an XML scheme associated with it was updated

Expand All

expands all the nodes of the XML code (compare to Collapse All):

Collapse All

collapses all the nodes of the XML code (compare to Expand All):