This document covers the following topics:
It is also possible to start and terminate a Natural batch session. See Natural in Batch Mode in the Operations documentation.
A Natural folder automatically appears in the folder of the menu after Natural has been installed. It contains the shortcuts for Natural, including Natural Studio and Help. If specified during installation, several shortcuts are also available on your Windows desktop.
Note:
When Natural has been installed in an environment protected by the
Windows firewall and can therefore not be started, see
Configuring the Microsoft
Windows Personal Firewall to Run Natural in the
Operations documentation.
To start Natural Studio
From the Windows menu choose .
Or:
Use the following shortcut on your Windows desktop.
Natural Studio, the development environment for Natural, appears. The toolbars and windows are placed at the same positions as when Natural Studio was left the last time. See Elements of the Natural Studio Window for further information.
When you have previously worked in a remote development environment and have therefore collapsed the node for the local environment, the local environment also appears collapsed when you restart Natural Studio.
When Natural Security is active, all definitions made in Natural Security have an influence on Natural Studio. Thus, the use of specific libraries, objects, commands and other features may be restricted to specific users only.
Notes:
When you terminate Natural Studio, the positions of the toolbars and windows are stored.
To terminate Natural Studio
From the menu, choose .
Or:
Choose the following toolbar button:
Or:
Press ALT+F4.
Or:
From the Control menu, choose .
Or:
Choose the corresponding standard button at the right of the title
bar.
Or:
Enter the system command FIN in the
command line.
Or:
Execute a program that contains a TERMINATE statement.
Note:
Termination methods can also be defined with the
Configuration Utility. See
also Program
Loading and Deletion in the Overview of Profile
Parameters section of the Configuration Utility
documentation.
You can suppress the display of the Natural startup map. To do so, you have to invoke the properties of the shortcut that is used to start Natural Studio. To suppress the startup map, specify a colon (:) after natural.exe in the Target text box. For example:
C:\Program Files\Software AG\Natural\n.n\Bin\natural.exe :
where n.n is the current version number.
