# Starting with ebe

## Tooltips

Move the mouse over the various windows and items in windows and wait about a half second to see tooltips. You can generally make a tooltip disappear by using either the mouse wheel or clicking. For the source window the you need to left click in the text to hide the tooltip. Tooltips will help as you get used to the program. You can turn off the tooltips in the menu.

## Menu

The menu system contains nearly everything which can be done in the program. Nearly all the menu options have keyboard shortcuts. Use the menu to figure out what all can be done and learn some keyboard tricks as you progress. A few things like using control with the arrow keys are not in the menu, so experiment.

## Debugging

Each time you click on the Run button the program saves your source code, runs the compiler and then starts running your program in the debugger. Most likely you will want to get a breakpoint before clicking Run. Do this by clicking to the left of a source code line where you would like to have the program stop and inspect things. Then you can click Run and Next/Step to step through your program 1 line at a time. Use Next to stay within the same function or subroutine. Use Step if you wish to debug inside a function or subroutine.