CST2013: History List

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You may think of the history list as a monitor of what you have done thus far. All important actions that you complete to perform a simulation are recorded there. The actions are stored as VBA-Commands and their names are listed in the history list.

With this list, you may apply changes to your model, restore a previous project state and record macros. It also works closely with the undo functionality.

Close

Closes this dialog box without performing any further action.

Run to

Pressing this button executes the history list and with this the state of the project until the selected command. The selected command is also executed.

Step

If you have restored your project to a particular command, this button allows you to execute the following commands one by one. This option is quite useful to debug your model if an error occurred (for example if you have made changes in the history list that make the execution of later commands impossible).

Continue

If you have restored your project to a particular command, this button allows you to execute the following commands to the end of the history list without processing the whole history.

(Un-)hide

The (Un-)hide button makes the selected commands inactive, or, if they are already hidden, it reactivates them. Hidden commands are not deleted from the history list, but they are no longer executed. They can be distinguished from normal commands by their light grey color in the list.

Delete

This command permanently deletes a command in the history list. Be careful with this command, you cannot undo it!

Edit...

This button allows you to edit the selected VBA command.

Find...

Search for a string in the history list.

Update

If you want to process the whole history list from the very beginning to update your model, press the update button.

Help

Shows this help text.

More / Less

With this buttons you can toggle the mode of the history list. 'More' will switch to the expert history mode. This will offer you more possibilities to modify the history list. Please note that editing the history might corrupt the model. 'Less' will switch back to the normal history mode and the 'expert mode frame' will disappear.

Expert mode frame

Copy: Copies the selected commands into the clipboard. (Alternatively: Ctrl+C)

Paste: Inserts commands from the clipboard into the history list. If a single command is selected, the commands will be inserted after that. If more than one command is selected, the commands will be inserted at the end of the history list. It is also possible to insert the commands into the history list of another project. (Alternatively: Ctrl+V)

Up: All selected commands will be shifted upwards by one position.

Down: All selected commands will be shifted downwards by one position.

Fix WCS: Sets the working coordinate system to absolute coordinates within the selected elements. This is useful whenever the topology of the structure is changed and the relative definition of the WCS fails.

Macro...: To create a macro, select the desired commands in the history list and press the macro button. The corresponding VBA commands are then stored in a new project macro and loaded into the VBA-Interpreter/Editor.

Backup: The actual state of the history will be stored internally. (Will be also automatically performed if the expert mode is switched on.)

Restore: This will restore the history which was previously saved with the 'Backup' button. This is useful if someone wants to undo its changes to the history.

Comment...: This will insert an empty history block after the selected position and the user can define the caption of that block. Useful to insert comments into the history for a better overview.