2. on:core Designer User Interface

User Interface Overview

		Workspace: This is where Units and wires are placed, arranged and connected.
		Inspector: Exposes the parameters of selected Units, provides a Unit library, Unit align functions and a file-browser.
		Message log: Displays general information about on:core and the output of Units which have the ability to directly print strings and other variables to the message log.
		Memory Monitor: Displays how much memory is allocated and used for the current project.

		Workflow Tabs: Each open Workflow is shown as a tab in the upper left.
		Workspace: Displays the Workflow. The background and the behavior of the Workspace can be configured in the Inspector using the "Layout" tab.
		Units and Wires: On the Workspace you can arrange Units and directly modify their parameters. Connections between Units are also made here by connecting/disconnecting wires.

Explained here are the tabs, from left to right.

		Project: Project specific settings.
		Attributes: Shows the attributes of a selected Unit.
		Unit Library: Lists all available Units and shows a short description.
		Layout and Workspace: Contains several Workspace related options.
		File Browser: A file browser to browse your file system.
		Daemons: Discovers and lists on:core Daemons.

	Show/Hide Memory Monitor: Shows or hides the Memory Monitor (on the right of the Message Log).
	Enable/Disable Workflow Tracing: When enabled the Workflow(s) are being traced when executing them. Tracing logs each step/action/event which occurs in a Workflow.
	Reveal Log: Reveals the logfile in the OS filesystem.
	Clear Log: Clears the Message Log.
	Date Column: Each Log entry has a timestamp, displayed in this column.
	Level: There are several levels of messages (info, debug, warn, error, fatal and trace).
	Memory Monitor: Displays how much memory is allocated and used for the current project.
	Run GC: Manually executes garbage collection (frees up memory, if possible).