BSDL Editor

The BSDL Editor allows you to view and edit BSDL and custom cell type package files. You can open the editor from either the View menu or from the JTAG Chain Screen.

It has a Project Files Explorer pane which contains the list of all the BSDL and package files in use in the project. Clicking on an item in the explorer will open that document in a separate tabbed window.

BSDL Files

Each BSDL document has two panes with information about the BSDL file, along with all the text in an editor.

Errors

This pane shows any errors in the file.

Information

This pane shows a useful summary of information about the file.

Editor

Contains the text in the file.

If a BSDL Document is selected the File menu will contain a Parser sub menu. This contains Strict Mode. If checked the parser used to read the BSDL file will interpret the BSDL file strictly to the specification. By default the editor (and XJDeveloper in general) will not be so strict and will allow some variance from the specification.

Custom Cell Type Package Files

Each package file document contains the text in the package file.

Editors

The editor supports syntax highlighting - keywords are shown in a different colour to make the code easier to read. The editor also supports "code folding" - blocks of code can be collapsed by clicking on the "-" symbol in the left margin, and expanded again by clicking "+".

By default, the editor will highlight all occurrences in the file of the word under the caret, and will also highlight all occurrences of the currently selected text. This behaviour can be customised or disabled in the Options Dialog.

See Editor Keystrokes for a list of keystrokes recognised by all the XJDeveloper editors.