Most of the main launcher window (Figure 3-1) reflects the two main kinds of objects it links together--tools and target servers:

Figure 3-1:  Tornado Launcher Main Window

The target list shows all target servers currently available in your development network. The list scrolls vertically if its contents exceed the display area.

The toolbar has a button for every installed Tornado tool. The toolbar display area scrolls horizontally if its contents exceed the space available. The toolbar illustrated in Figure 3-1 displays the fundamental collection of Tornado tools:

WindSh

The Tornado shell, an interactive window to the target that includes both a C interpreter and a Tcl interpreter. The shell is described in detail in 5. Shell.

CrossWind

The Tornado graphical debugger, a powerful source-level debugger that provides both graphical and command-driven access to target programs. 7. Debugger provides full documentation.

Browser

A viewer to explore and monitor target system objects, described in 6. Browser.

Project

A graphical facility for managing application files, configuring VxWorks, and building applications and system images. See 4. Projects.

VxSim

The VxWorks target simulator. It is a port of VxWorks to the host system that simulates a target operating system. No target hardware is required. See the Tornado Getting Started Guide for a introductory discussion of target simulator usage, and 4. Projects for information about its use as a development tool.¹

WindView

The Tornado logic analyzer for real-time software. It is a dynamic visualization tool that provides information about context switches, and the events that lead to them, as well as information about instrumented objects. See the WindView User's Guide.²

1:  Tornado includes a version of the VxSim target simulator that runs as a single instance per user, without networking support (optional products such as STREAMS, SNMP, and Wind Foundation Classes are not available for this version). The full-scale version supports multiple-instance use and includes networking support. It is available as an optional product.

2:  Tornado includes a version of WindView designed solely for use with the VxWorks target simulator. WindView is also available as an optional product for all supported target architectures.