Rational Statemate consists of a set of tools that interact with one another to provide a complete system design environment. From the Rational Statemate main window, Rational Statemate provides various browser views, windows and drawing areas, menus and toolbars to access and use its collection of system design, validation, simulation, and requirements-gathering utilities.
The Rational Statemate main window displays a hierarchy of your project, and provides easy access to the elements and diagrams it contains. The following figure shows the different areas of the Rational Statemate main window.
The Rational Statemate main window displays the current project name in the top status bar and includes tabs, toolbars, and menus to help you use Rational Statemate.
In the Rational Statemate main window, tabs at the bottom provide four views for looking at Rational Statemate project elements. The Rational Statemate main window provides the following views:
Below each of the four main tabs are a Messages Tab and a Log Tab, that display the status of your Rational Statemate operations in linear or searchable form.
A menu bar at the top of the window provides access to many Rational Statemate tools and features. In addition to the menu bar, the main window provides several toolbars:
Note: The graphic editors have additional toolbars and menus, which are described in Using the Graphic Editors and Graphic Editor Menus.Note: All Statement windows allow standard multiple row selection operations using the CTRL and SHIFT keys as well as cut, copy and paste operations between windows.The following matrix operations are available for elements on the right pane:
The following sections describe the tabs, toolbars, and menus on the main window.