relevant topic in the User' Manual. The text editor and the Online Help System work together, to
allow you to search the Irie Pascal Programmer's Reference Manual (in "progref.html") for topics
keyed to individual words in the editor. To seach for the current word (i.e. the word under the text
editor's caret), just press the F1 key. Depending on the setting of the Double-click word
search check box in the environment options page of the Project Options dialog box, you may
also be able to search for words simply by double-clicking on them.
Other Components - The other components that make up the IDE include the menus, dialog boxes,
and toolbar.
4.2 Irie Pascal projects
Irie Pascal Projects
When the Irie Pascal IDE is in project mode (see The Executable Preferences page for more information)
every program you work with must be associated with a project. Each Irie Pascal project is stored in a
project file with the extension (.ipj), and only one program can be a associated with an Irie Pascal project
at any one time. When a project is compiled, it is the program associated with the project, that is actually
compiled. You can change the program associated with a project by using the Choose Program... menu
entry from the Project menu. In addition to the program, Irie Pascal projects also contain a number of
options that affect the editor, the compiler, as well as the executable generated by the compiler. It is
recommended that you create a new project for each program that you write. This allows you to specify
project options separately for each program that you write. If you do not specifically create or open a
project, then the default project is used.
The Default Project
When you start the Irie Pascal IDE it automatically opens the default project. Whenever you create a new
project it starts off with the options specified for the default project. So it's best to specify the options for
the default project that you use most often.
4.3.1.1 File menu
The File menu, as the name suggests, is mainly used to perform actions on files, and is shown below:
File Menu Entries
NOTE: The term current file is used below to mean the file in the active text editor window (or in other
