# SIM: Main Window

When you complete the Configuration Wizard, you will be redirected to the Simulator window which will look something like this.

The Simulator window contains a number of tools as well as a multitude of information you can use to help simulate your project. The four main areas of the window are the Menu, Toolbar, Events pane, and DES pane.

The Menu has three directories, File, Run, and View. The File menu is where you can Start a new simulation, reopen the Configuration Wizard, Open an existing simulation, Save your current simulation, or close the simulator. The Run menu is where you can Start and Stop your simulation, step Forward and Backward through the simulation, and toggle the Trace, Fast Mode, and History. The View menu has an option to toggle between the Running view and the History view as well as open the Trace Viewer and Graphical Viewer.

The toolbar is divided into six sections. The first section contains a shortcut button to start a new simulation. The second and third sections contain everything found in the Run Menu. The drop down box in the second section allows you to select how many events will take place consecutively when you step forward or backward in your simulation.

The next section contains buttons to toggle showing History and Trace, or not showing them to speed up the simulation. There is also a button to turn Fast Mode simulation on or off (default is off).

The next section contains a Go To button as well as a drop down box. Use these to go to a specific time in the history of the simulation. For example, if you have simulated 1436 events (i.e your current step is 1436), you could Go To any place in time from step 1-1435. Please note that jumping to an earlier step will discard all later transitions.

The fifth section contains shortcut buttons for the Trace and Graphical viewers as well as the very important Current Step. The Current Step is the amount of events simulated consecutively from your start state. The last section contains the previous and next events. The previous event is the event that brought the simulation from the last step to the current step. The next event is the event that will bring the simulation to the next step. The next event is only "known" when in History mode.

The Events pane contains several tabs which are used to display different information about the events in the simulation. This includes the Dashboard tab. Please see the Event Pane page for more information.

The DES pane has two tabs to show current and next state tuples and a third tab to display trace information. Please see the States Pane page for more information.

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