USER'S MANUAL CAST v1.11 Collaborative Applications Specification Tool

GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE SPECIFICATION ENVIRONMENT

The working area

Creating an object

Selecting an object

Removing an object

Moving or resizing an object

Tasks and operators panel

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The working area

This graphic zone is the place where language elements are combined in order to give birth to a specification. Once you have selected a symbol in the panel you can position the object in the working area just by clicking in that one.

Tasks and operators panel

The specification language is introduce in the form of a tool-box. Each symbol represents either an operator or a task.

Creating an object

Once the object is selected by a clic on the mouse left button in the panel, each clic with the mouse left button in the working zone create an object at the cursor design coordinates just at the clic time.

Selecting an object

Once the cursor located on an object in the working zone, the object can be selected by a clic with the left button.

Removing an object

Each object selected in the working zone can be destroyed. In order to do that, the menu ????? option or the Cut button is used.

Moving or resizing an object

Every task selected can be resize or move.

The symbol : allow the selection of an element in the working zone and make it active.

The menu

It presents some fonctionnalities. These last ones are divided in 2 families :

Generally, expected fonctionnalities of a graphic program tool : Save, Read, Copy, Delete, Paste ...
CAST specific fonctionnalities.

The File option

New : Create a new specification
Open : To open a specification stocked on disk ( file .cast )
Save : save the current specification
Save As : To save the specification in a file ( file.cast )
Application properties : This option permit you to sieze the name and the execution site of the application you are going to conceive.
PostScript... : To print the specification in a printing postscript file.
Exit : To quit the application.

The Edit option

Copy : duplicate the object in the buffer
Paste : Duplicate the objet from the buffer to the work zone
Cut : Delete selected object(s)
Select All : select all objects in the work zone

The Option option

Colors : redefinition of tasks color
Grid : display a grid in the work zone
Reread options : reread the options file
Save options : save the option in the options file

The Tools option

Main formula : generate the SCCS formula of the current specification.
All the formula : generate the SCCS formula including sub-tasks
Data Flow : generate the parameters data flow in an ascii file, see Data Flow generation section

The Parameter option

Parameter Types : Allow the user to create his own parameters types.

Buttons


	To finish the project in progress and start a new one
	To load a new project from the disk
	To save the project in progress on the disk
	To cancel last executed operations
	To redo what was canceled
	To copy the selected task in the buffer
	To stick the task which is in the buffer
	To delete the selection
	To quit CAST
	WARNING : The next buttons are not available in the CAST specifier !!!!!
	To ask for the specified task graph execution
	To momentarilly stop the execution
	To restart after a pause
	To stop the task graph execution

Messages bar

This zone at the bottom of the screen gives you out some informations following manipulations in the working zone.

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Last update by Jérôme BLACHON, January 1999..