ChipProgUSB features the standard Windows interface with several useful additions:
1.Each window has its own local menu (the shortcut menu). To open this menu, click the right mouse button within the window area or press Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl+F10. Each command in the menu has a hot key shortcut assigned to the Ctrl+<letter> keys. Pressing the hot key combination in the active window executes the corresponding command. 2.Each window has its own local toolbar. The window’s toolbar buttons give access to most of the window’s local menu commands. The specialized window toolbar buttons operate only within the specialized window. The main ChipProgUSB window has several toolbars that can be turned on or off (in the Environment dialog, the Toolbar tab). 3.Each toolbar button has a short prompt: when you place the cursor over a toolbar button for two seconds, a small yellow box appears nearby with a short description of the button’s function. 4.To save screen space, you can hide any window’s title bar. To do this, use the Properties command of the local menu. You can identify the ChipProgUSB windows by their contents and position on the screen (and, if you wish, by color and font). When the title bar is hidden, you can move the window as if the toolbar were the title bar: place the cursor on the free space of the toolbar, press the left mouse button and drag the window to a new position. 5.You can open any number of windows of the same type. For example, you can open several Buffer windows. 6.Every input text field of any dialog box has a history list. ChipProgUSB saves them when you close a development session. Then a previously entered string can be picked from the history list. 7.All input text boxes in the dialogs feature automatic name completion. 8.All check boxes and radio buttons in the dialogs work in the following way: a double-click on the check box or radio button is equivalent to a single click on the box or button, followed by a click on the OK button. This is convenient when you need to change only one option in the dialog and then close it.
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