# The DESpot Main Window

When DESpot is started, the Main window is displayed.

The DESpot main window contains three areas for browsing as well as a menu, a toolbar, and a button panel. The three browsing areas are for quickly finding recently used projects, recently used DES and for listing, in a hierarchical form, any windows that are currently open. A project or DES found in these lists can be opened for editing by double clicking on it. Items listed in the "Windows Currently Open" list can be double clicked on, which will bring that window to the top of all other windows.

The menu has four options which allow you to do a number of tasks. The Start menu has the option to Start a new Flat or HISC project, Open an existing project, or close the DESpot application. The DES menu has options to Create or Open a DES and a radio button which decides whether DES are opened in the Tabular or Graphical editor. The Windows menu gives the option to show or close the window which is highlighted in the "Windows Currently Open" area. The Help menu opens this help browser or an About DESpot dialog.

The toolbar has five buttons. From left to right, these buttons allow a user to Start a new flat or HISC project, Open a project and either create or Open a DES. If one needs to work with a DES outside a project, they can do so from here.

The buttons along the bottom of the window do similar tasks as described above. The Remove buttons remove the highlighted project or DES from the respective browsing area. This does not delete the files from disk, just from the Recently Used list.

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