Studio Menu Reference

Allows you to create a new StreamBase resource, as well as standard Eclipse resources.

Opens a selected file in your file system, using the program associated with the file in your system. For example, a CSV file might be opened in your favorite text editor. StreamBase files generally have specialized editors.

Allows you to import a StreamBase Studio project from the file system into this instance of Studio from a project folder or from a zip file created by the File>Export operation in this or another instance of Studio.

Invokes the LiveView Connectivity Wizard, which enables you to quickly stand up a LiveView server application for the purpose of streaming live data to TIBCO Spotfire® from certain data sources.

Opens the Eclipse Import dialog. The StreamBase section of the import source tree allows you to import projects from a file system or the StreamBase Component Exchange. See Importing into Studio.

Opens the Eclipse Export dialog. The StreamBase section allows you to export the current application to a StreamBase application bundle. See Exporting from Studio.

Opens a dialog that lets you import sample projects that illustrate various aspects of StreamBase and LiveView. You can load sample projects from three sources:

See Loading Samples in Studio.

Opens a dialog that allows you to download StreamBase projects, libraries, utilities, and components from the StreamBase Component Exchange.

Allows you to specify an alternate workspace. When selected, StreamBase Studio closes and reopens using the specified workspace. Use alternate workspaces to organize projects into groups that share resources.

Restarts StreamBase Studio with the currently open workspace.

For StreamBase Studio on Windows, closes Studio. On Mac, the StreamBase Studio menu in the toolbar provides the Quit menu to close Studio.

This option selects all components in the currently active editor.

Shows the standard Eclipse pop-up description of the StreamSQL keyword under the cursor.

Completes a StreamSQL term when you have partially entered its name, if the remaining text is unambiguous. If the result is not satisfactory, try typing more text or using Content Assist. Keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+..

In the StreamSQL Editor, shows a drop-down list of keywords and functions that you can choose to insert in a line of StreamSQL code. It may also display syntax and brief help for the current item. To select an item from the list, you can scroll to locate the desired item, or you can begin typing its name. The type ahead feature completes the item when it can do so unambiguously. If you have begun typing a word, Content Assist may complete the word without displaying a list, as with Word Completion. Keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+space.

Displays brief help if you hover your cursor over a function name in a StreamSQL statement.

Opens the Open StreamBase Resource dialog. This dialog allows you to look up and open StreamBase-specific resources anywhere in your workspace, across all current projects in the workspace. The StreamBase resources included in the list are all StreamBase-related file types in the workspace.

You must type a search string before the list of resources is populated. Enter a single asterisk to show all resources in your workspace.

Under most circumstances, leave this item checked. If checked, when you save an EventFlow Editor editing session, that application and all StreamBase applications in your workspace are typechecked. When unchecked, automatic typechecking on save does not occur.

Extract as Module (on the submenu):

Replaces the selected components in the current EventFlow module with a Module Reference, and creates a new module in the current project folder. See Extracting a Module.

JDBC Operator Schemas Wizard (on the submenu):

Starts the JDBC Query Operator Schema Refactor wizard as described in Refactor All JDBC Query Operators.

Remove Unused Imports Wizard (on the submenu):

Starts the Remove Unused Import wizard as described in Minimizing Module Imports.

When two or more components are selected on the EventFlow canvas, provides a submenu with six options for aligning the selected items on the canvas: Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Align Top, Align Middle, Align Bottom.

A toggle that enables the blue alignment lines that appear when moving a component icon on the canvas to help you align the component with adjacent ones.

Opens a pop-up summary of the components in the current EventFlow — a faster alternative to the Outline view.

Opens the Module Call Hierarchy view to examine the module calling order of the currently selected EventFlow module.

Displays a pop-up window showing the XML source of the current EventFlow module. If a single component is selected, the window contains the XML source code for that component only. If you select zero or multiple components, the entire application is shown.

Typechecks the current EventFlow module. See Typechecking.

Toggles the state of automatic typechecking.

Centers the selected components in the current EventFlow Editor canvas.

Rearranges the EventFlow module's components and connections on the Editor canvas.

Zooms the current EventFlow module in or out to fit the current Editor canvas.

When a Module Reference is selected, opens the EventFlow file that defines that module. When the icon for a custom Java operator or adapter is selected, opens the Java source file for that Java operator or adapter, if the source is available in the current Studio workspace.

Stops the currently running LiveView fragment, if one is running. If more than one is running, Studio prompts you to select which LiveView fragments you want to stop.

Stops the currently running EventFlow fragment, if one is running. If more than one is running, Studio prompts you to select which EventFlow fragments you want to stop.

By default, runs the currently selected EventFlow module, or runs the launch configuration associated with the selected application, or re-runs the last-run configuration. The behavior of the Run button can be changed using Window>Preferences, then Run/Debug>Launching.

Provides a menu of recently run launch configurations.

When an EventFlow module has the current focus, the Run As menu has one submenu, StreamBase Application that runs the currently selected EventFlow module using Studio's default launch configuration. You can modify the default launch configuration using Window>Preferences, then Run/Debug>Launching.

Opens the Eclipse launch configuration dialog, where you can create, edit, and run launch configurations for Eclipse-hosted applications, including StreamBase applications.

These options are the same as their Run counterparts, except that they run the selected application in debug mode, and allow you to specify a saved debug configuration.

Provides tools to configure an Ant build, or to run another external build tool. This is an Eclipse feature not expected to be useful for StreamBase applications.

Opens the StreamBase Welcome page.

Displays Help contents in an Eclipse Help window or external browser. The help contains books, topics, and information for StreamBase together with information about Eclipse-contributed components.

Opens a Help view in which you can search the Help systems of all current Eclipse plug-ins. To narrow the search to include only StreamBase Help, use the Search scope control.

Opens a Help view to show help text for the currently active view, and dynamically updates as you switch among views.

View key bindings available for StreamBase Studio commands. To change a binding, select its name in the Key Assist list and press Shift+Ctrl+L

Opens the Tips and Tricks dialog. Select StreamBase Studio to see a page of suggestions for using Studio. You can also view the tips and tricks pages for other Eclipse plug-ins.

Opens the core reference document for StreamBase expression language features.

Opens the core function reference for the StreamBase expression language.

Opens the Cheat Sheet Selection dialog, from which you can run a cheat sheet for StreamBase Studio or for other Eclipse plug-ins. A cheat sheet is an interactive tutorial that guides you through a demonstration or topic, step by step.

This is an Eclipse feature not implemented for StreamBase Studio.

Accesses the Eclipse mechanism for installing and managing Eclipse plug-ins and updates. StreamBase Studio does not use this update mechanism.

Invokes the StreamBase Support Wizard, which enables you to capture information in your Studio environment to help troubleshoot StreamBase Runtime issues.

Launches the Studio Resource Center view which provides a hands-on walkthrough of StreamBase Studio, its different perspectives, views, and how to run a simple EventFlow fragment. The Resource Center also includes links to TIBCO® Streaming and LiveView user documentation.

Use to experiment with your function definition syntax until the dialog confirms it is valid.

This menu option forces Studio to rerun its population of the local Maven repository with all StreamBase-related artifacts.

Displays feature, license, and plug-in information about the current release of StreamBase. The Installation Details button, Configuration tab, displays informations about your running system and any current error condition. Use this when communicating with TIBCO Customer Support.