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## For those who don't like to read manuals

If you are like many engineers at Scientific Toolworks, you like to just plow in and get going with software. We encourage that, or at least we are pragmatic enough to know you will do it anyway! So feel free to use this manual as a safety net, or to find the less obvious features. However, before you depart the manual read the next few sections of tips.

### Use Right Click Menus

Right Click gets you a long way in Understand for Ada; almost everywhere you point you can learn more and do more by bringing up menus with your Right Mouse Button.

Tip: Hold down the CTRL key while right clicking to create new windows rather than re-using existing ones.

### Use the Server Mode To Integrate With Your IDE

Understand for Ada is designed to be used both for stand alone browsing/discovery as well as browsing that is controlled from another application.

You can control Understand for Ada from any editor or program where you can launch a simple program called "u_client_ada". The client accepts 4 arguments:

u_client_ada entityname [filename row column]
Where:
entityname is the name of what you wish to learn about
filename is an optional argument of where you are looking at the entity
row is optional argument indicating what line number in that file
column is an optional argument indicating what column of that line

For example:

u_client_ada afunction mypackage.adb 15 1

will tell Understand for Ada to synchronize all views to information about function afunction as seen in file my_package.adb on line 15 column 1.

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