NetAlive Documentation

Control Menu

Run

Starts interactive operation of a document/application.

The Run command first checks a document for validity (compilation, see below). If the check fails, the user is presented with a list of reasons and the program does not start running.

It is usually not necessary to use this command because documents start running automatically when loaded unless:

• "Start automatically" is not set in the "Program attributes" dialog or
• "No start on explicit open is set in the "My computer" category of the setup dialog and the document loads via the File Open command or Least Recently Used (LRU) command.

This command is not available during compilation (see below).

Compile

A document can be compiled to four different levels. The first level does the least amount of work. The next level does everything in the previous level plus more.

Check connections

Performs the following checks:

• Detects two or more links connected to the same input.
• Detects links with both ends on the same task.
• Detects links connecting two outputs or two inputs.
• Checks that apply to documents that cannot be run with released software are not documented here.

Compile functions

Checks connections and compiles all tasks containing compilable code. Functions are compiled one-at-a-time within each document. Other documents remain active during compilation.

Load binary

Checks connections, compiles functions, and loads the binaries for compilable functions into the document.

Strip source

Checks connections, compiles functions, loads binaries, and then removes source code for tasks that have binary.

Edit Background

Invokes the native editor on the document's background image. The current implementation modally-locks NetAlive until the editing completes.

Check Out

Attempts to check the document's file out of the version control system. Only works for documents stored on disk. Uses checkout parameters.

Status

Displays pending network operations for the active document.

Kill

Terminates pending network operations for the active document.

Display Log

Normal release versions of NetAlive have the logging facility disabled and show this command as "disabled." Versions of NetAlive with logging enabled have "*LOGFILE*" present in the "Help About" dialog and Splash.

Clear Cache

Clears files from the temporary directory area:

Specifically:

• Deletes files with extensions cpp, c, obj, exe, dll. def, log, l, and hpp in directory c:\temp\netalive.
• Deletes all files in directory c:\temp\netalive\t.
• Deletes all files in directory c:\temp\netalive\cache
• Deletes all files matching path c:\temp\netalive\src\*\*.*. The Win32 version of NetAlive also deletes all files matching the path c:\temp\netalive\src\*\WinRel\*.* and c:\temp\netalive\src\*\WinDebug\*.* and the WinRel and WinDebug subdirectories as well. Deletes subdirectories c:\tmp\netalive\src\*.

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