yabConcept Creator - Documentation yabConcept Creator is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for yab, which is developed from ground up new. We have added many features familiar from the yabIDE BeSly Edition. Things like the backup system, menu option to open project and backup folder, export Source as HTML and many more. But we also have lots of innovations intregiert. The IDE is completely changeable. You can change the layout and the icon theme. You can change syntax highlightning colors, yab commands and command icons of the commands toolbar. You can store your own templates for a better and faster work. A structured listing of commands facilitates the work, so you does not need a extern yab commands list any more. Many of the commands listed in the commands toolbar have an extended menu over which you can manage more settings before adding them into the editor. We have created some templates that simplify the learning. So we are sure that it is interesting for beginners and experienced developers.   General Installation First start Settings Layout and Themes Command Icons Backup Backup restore Funtionality ASCII Table Color Table Command Icons Editor Icons Examples Notice   Installation To install yabConcept Creator is a easy thing. You only need to unpack the program package to a place of your choice and if you like, do a link to the app menu. You dont need to have yab allready installed because yabConcept Creater comes with compiled yab versions. If you does not can run any source with the IDE check out the Options at General to see if a yab version is set. If not do it. back to index   First start Then you start up yabConcept Creator the first time, you need to accept the licence informations. If you does not want to see this licence informations every time you start up yabConcept Creator deselect "Desplay this Licence information at startup". Then the program ask you for installing yab into the global yab binary position on the system. It does not install a binary directly, it makes a link from the intregated yab version of yabConcept Creator. You does not need to install it for using the IDE, but if you want to create yab scripts you need to install it, because without the yab binary in "/boo/home/config/bin" no yab script will be run on your system. back to index   Layout and Themes The yabConcept Creator have variable gui elements and themes, so you can change the position of the input and output views, the position of the tabulators and the icon theme. To change the GUI elements open the "options" and select "Editor/Layout". Use the dropboxes to change tab and element positions and icon theme. If you want to create your own icon theme, change into the theme folder at /path/to/program/data/theme/ and add a new folder with the name of your theme. Create your own icons in a size of max 25 x 25 pixels. Some icons need a size of max 9 x 9 pixels. Please take a look on the "default" icons to get size and name of every icon. The name need to be the same, but the size can be a little bit variable. All icons they does not create will be linked automatically from the default theme into the current theme folder. So you never get problemes to lost program funtionalities. back to index   Command Icons In the "options" at "Editor/Command Icons" you can change the yab command icons off the command icon Toolbar. Here you have two listboxes with icons. In the left listbox you see all available icons and in the right you see all icons currently used in the toolbar. Move icon to the right Listbox Move icon to the left Listbox Remove all icons of the right Listbox Move icon up Move icon down Value of showalbe toolbar icons (is pendent of the size of application window) To change icons, only select one and use the buttons. You does not can add a icon you have allreadey in the "in use" list. If you have done your changes, press on "take over". back to index   Backup There are two different ways to do a backup. The first one is to select "backup" in the file menu. The second way is to activate the automatic backup function in the options. This generates a backup depending on the times you are save your source file. The place there the backup files stored are every time the same. It creates a "backup" folder into your source folder.   Backup restore You can restore your backup files using the "backup restore" menu option. It opens a new window with a list of stored backup files. Select one of them and press on restore to proceed. The restored backup file will be opened into a new editor. back to index   ASCII Table The ASCII table included letters, numbers and signs as hex numbers. Every time you want to add a sign like " into a widget you need to use the ASCII numbers. The number used with the Chr$() command displays the letter, number or sign of the ascii list (Example: Chr$(34) for ", Chr$(47) for \). If you do a double click on one of the entries of the ASCII table, it will be added into the current opened Document (included the Chr&() command). back to index   Color Table Over the color table you have over 100 colors sorted in alphabetically order. You can also select a color using the RGB fields (red, green, blue). If you want to use a specific color from the Internet you can convert it into a rgb color. back to index   Command Icons Boxview * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Button * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Calendar * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Canvas * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Checkbox * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Columnbox * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Draw Circle   Draw Curve   Draw Ellipse   Draw Line   Draw Rect   Draw Text   Dropbox * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Filepanel * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Image Button * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Listbox * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Radiobutton * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Slider * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Splitview * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Stackview * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Statusbar * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Tabview * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Textcontrol * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Textedit * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Treebox * Use right mouse button for advanced settings View * Use right mouse button for advanced settings Window * Use right mouse button for advanced settings back to index   Editor Icons New file Open file Save file Save as new file Save file as executeable script Copy to clipboard Paste from clipboard Cut selected Search Replace Replace all Close file Run file Run file in terminal Notice editor ASCII table Color table Export to HTML Export to PDF Open terminal back to index   Examples The examples and experimental examples will show that you can do with yab. All examples are write protected. If you want to use an example for your own project, save it as new file. back to index   Notice You can use a notice editor for every opened document. Press the balloon icon on the right site of the editor to open it. Then you save your document your notice will be saved too. It creates a document called programname.notice into your document folder. back to index Tutorial By Christian Albrecht, August/September 2012 Made available by BeSly, the Haiku, BeOS and Zeta knowledge base.