Control Panel
The main window, titled Statical Prism for C/AL, is where you open object stores, manage mirrors, change settings and see your version and license. The workspace window's menu calls it the Control Panel. Each object store you open gets its own Workspace window.
Opening it
- Start Prism for C/AL. The main window opens with the Home page.
- From a workspace window, select File › Control Panel… or press Ctrl+P.
| # | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menu bar | The File menu and the Help menu. |
| 2 | Home | Shows the Home page: open a new or recent object store. |
| 3 | Mirrors | Shows the Mirrors page: manage database mirrors. |
| 4 | About | Shows the About page. |
| 5 | Settings | Shows the Settings page. It sits at the bottom of the rail, below a separator. |
| 6 | Page area | Shows the page selected in the rail. |
While Prism runs background operations, such as a mirror synchronization, a button appears at the bottom of the rail, above Settings. Select it to see the running operations.
File menu
| # | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | The kinds of object store you can open, with your mirrors at the top. |
| 2 | Recent | The object stores you opened recently. |
| 3 | Mirrors… | Shows the Mirrors page. |
| 4 | Settings… | Shows the Settings page. |
| 5 | Exit | Closes Prism for C/AL. |
Help menu
| # | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learn… | Opens this manual. |
| 2 | Feedback… | Opens the Feedback window. |
| 3 | Log | Opens the log and sets the log level. |
| 4 | Version Check | Checks for a newer version now. |
| 5 | Enter License… | Opens the Activate license window. |
| 6 | Get Trial License… | Opens the Trial license window. |
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9 | Open the first to ninth recent object store. |
| Ctrl+M | Show the Mirrors page. |
| Ctrl+P | Show the Settings page. |
| Ctrl+L | Open the log. |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Open the session log. |
| Ctrl+Alt+L | Show the folder that holds the log files in File Explorer. No menu item does this. |
| Alt+F4 | Exit Prism for C/AL. |
Notifications
Messages that need no answer appear in a notification box at the bottom right of the window; close one with its close button. Notices from Statical, such as news about a release, arrive with the version check and appear in the same box, each once per session. Questions and confirmations appear as dialogs over the window.
Preview builds
A preview build is a pre-release of the next version of Prism for C/AL. It shows an amber PREVIEW badge in the title bar, its window title ends in — Preview, and its version number ends in Preview. Features in a preview may change before the next stable release. Read about the current preview on the Prism for C/AL preview page.
When you run a stable version and a preview exists, the Home page's Version block offers it.
Dark and light theme
Prism for C/AL follows the Windows app theme, dark or light; it has no theme setting of its own. To change the theme, change the app mode in the Windows settings.
When Windows switches theme while Prism runs, Prism asks Restart Prism now?, because it shows the new theme fully only after a restart.
- Restart restarts Prism. Open object stores close; reopen them from the recent list.
- Not now keeps you working. Prism switches at once, but some colors stay in the old theme until it next starts.