Main Window

This is the IDE's base frame shown when you launch QMachineStudio. It consists of the title bar and toolbar at the top, the Solution Explorer on the side, a tab-based document editing area in the center, and the result panel at the bottom — letting you edit, build, diagnose, and run a project from a single screen.

From top to bottom the window is divided into four areas: title bar, toolbar, work area (center + right), and status bar. Each area is described in order below.

Title Bar and Menus

The title bar at the very top shows the app logo and the name of the currently open project, with minimize, maximize, and close buttons at the far right. Eight main menus are laid out horizontally next to the logo.

The eight menus are listed below. The individual items of each menu are covered in their own chapters.

The "Edit menu" referenced in earlier versions does not exist; the actual menus are only the eight above.

Toolbar

The toolbar below the title bar gathers frequently used commands as icon buttons. Editing and build buttons are on the left, while the theme toggle and monitoring dialog buttons are on the right.

The left-side buttons are:

• Save All & Rebuild (Ctrl+S) — save all files and rebuild
• Constant Value Editor — global constant editor (Global Constant Editor)
• Message Editor — message editor (Message Editor)
• Error Editor — error definition editor (Error Editor)
• GUI Text Editor — GUI multilingual text editor (GUI Text Editor)
• IO Editor — I/O definition editor (IO Editor)
• Motor Editor — motor definition editor (Motor Editor)
• Cylinder Editor — cylinder definition editor (Cylinder Editor)
• Search (Ctrl+F) — project-wide search
• Run Machine (F5) — start equipment runtime
• Project Options — project options (Project Option)
• Tool Options — IDE environment settings

Next come the Lock Design toggle and the alignment buttons. Releasing Lock Design activates the design editing mode, which reveals the alignment, sizing, and spacing buttons (Align, Make same size, Space equally, etc.). The language buttons are ENG / KOR / CHN, and the adjacent Apply Current Language To All button applies the currently selected language to every GUI control at once.

The right-side buttons are:

• Light/Dark theme toggle — a horizontal slide switch that swaps the light and dark themes
• IO Monitor — real-time I/O monitor
• Motor Monitor — real-time motor axis monitor
• JobFile Parameter Editor — edit JobFile parameters
• Setup Parameter Editor — edit Setup parameters

Central Document Editing Area

The center of the work area is a tab-based document editing area. Scripts, editors, and setup screens each open as tabs, and when there are many tabs you can move through them with the scroll buttons on either side of the header. A tab closes by double-clicking or via its close button.

Because many kinds of documents open in the same tab area, you can open an IO Editor or a setup screen alongside a script and work while comparing them.

Solution Explorer (Side Panel)

The Solution Explorer shows the project's components as a tree. It appears on the right of the work area by default, and you toggle its visibility with View → View Solution Explorer (Ctrl+Shift+E).

Double-clicking a tree node opens that item in a center tab. You can drag and drop to reorder items or tidy up the structure.

Bottom Result Panel

At the bottom of the work area is the result panel that shows build and search results. It comprises three tabs — Output, Error List, and Search_List — and is shown and focused with View → View Result List (Ctrl+Shift+O). See Output / Error / Search Panel for details.

• Output — output messages from the build and run process
• Error List — compile errors and warnings (double-click to jump to the location)
• Search_List — search results (one tab per query, up to 10)

Status Bar

The status bar at the very bottom shows the current status message. Together with the alert icon on the left, it briefly reports work progress or notices.

Related

• Keyboard Shortcuts
• File Menu
• View Menu
• System Menu
• Output / Error / Search Panel