Introducing the Lynx Project Explorer

As a Project Explorer, Lynx provides a hierarchical map of the files and code in your project. If you're not used to using such a tool, it's like having a detailed index for your project, with the entries being hyperlinks. Lynx works hand in hand with your editor.

To use Lynx, you have to define a Project ; this will typically consist of source code files, but can also include any other files of interest - spreadsheets, project notes, to-do lists, icons and so on.

Once a project is open, Lynx provides you with a navigation 'tree' for the project allowing you to see the structure of your code in detail, with (almost) all tree nodes being hyperlinks into the code element (or file) in question.

All of this is wrapped up in a small, self-shrinking window which also provides the other common facilities you need as you work - running the compiler, creating resource files, accessing Help and so on.

Project explorers of one sort or another are commonplace for other languages and development environments, for example Visual C++, Visual Basic, lcc-Win32. Lynx now brings this facility to PowerBASIC developers.

So, Lynx is a Project Manager then ?

Lynx functions rather nicely as a project manager, but strictly speaking, that's not what it sets out to do. In order to be useful in its intended role, Lynx is necessarily project-based. Because of this, a rich set of project management capabilities have been developed and incorporated.