====== User Interface Overview ======

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{{:fsbpro_guide:ui_overview.png|Main User Interface}}

There are seven zones:

  - Main Menu
  - Toolbar Menu
  - Notification Area
  - Tabs
  - Right side panels
  - Bottom panels
  - Status bar

There are five general types of tabs:

  - [[fsbpro_guide:start_page]] - shows a list of the last opened strategies and gives you fast access to load more strategies off-line or on-line
  - [[fsbpro_guide:history_center]] - allows you to operate your data files
  - [[fsbpro_guide:repository_tab]] - load off-line strategy collections or download some from the on-line repository.
  - [[fsbpro_guide:control_panel]] - program-wide settings for FSB Pro
  - [[fsbpro_guide:strategy_tab]] - Shows an open strategy

In strategy tabs the title is always the title of the current strategy.

You can close each tab by clicking with the middle button/scroll of your mouse.

There are some additional panels that can be opened to accompany your work (Bottom panels):

  * Output Log - Shows additional information, warnings, errors and hints concerning your latest actions ant the program's status
  * Trade Status - Shows any currently open positions
  * Trade Journal - Shows a log of the trading operations

There are some additional panels that can be opened to accompany your work (Right side panels):

  * [[fsbpro_guide:additional_statistics]] - Shows complementary statistics to Account Statistics
  * [[fsbpro_guide:strategy_explorer]] - lets you easily navigate between strategy files from inside FSB Pro 
  * [[fsbpro_guide:strategy_portfolio]] - Watches all open strategies and computes a cumulative strategy

===== Main Menu =====

{{:fsbpro_guide:ui_overview_main_menu.png?500|Main Menu}}

  * **File**
    * **New** Creates and opens a new empty strategy 
    * **Open** lets you select and open a saved strategy, you can also select multiple strategies to open at once (this command will use the latest location you opened a strategy from)
    * **Open Default -** opens the default strategy directory (C:\Program Files\Forex Strategy Builder Pro\User Files\Strategies)
    * **Save -** saves the strategy from the active tab
    * **Save as -** saves the strategy from the active tab as a new file
    * **Close -** closes the current tab
    * **Save all -** saves all open strategies
    * **Close all -** closes all tabs
    * **User Files Folder...** - opens //C:\Program Files\Forex Strategy Builder Pro\User Files// where all user data lives
    * **Exit Program** - Closes FSB Pro

  * **Edit**
    * **Undo, Redo** - those commands can be applied to the active strategy tab. Those are usable only if the strategy has been changed since the tab is opened.
    * Copy Strategy, Paste Strategy - allows you to copy a strategy to the clipboard, you can copy and paste strategies between FSB Pro to FSB or copy and paste strategies from the on-line repository to FSB Pro.

  * **View**
    * Has commands to open all possible types of tabs and panels
    * **Main Toolbar** - allows you to disable/enable the Main Toolbar
    * **Status Bar** - allows you to disable/enable the Status Bar

  * **Account**
    * **Account Settings** - opens **Control Panel > Account**

  * **Market**
    * **Symbol Settings** - opens **Control Panel > Symbols**
    * **Data Horizon** - opens **Control Panel > Data Horizon**
    * **Data Sources** - opens **Control Panel > Data Sources**
    * **Download History Data** - opens **History Center > Data Download**
    * **Import JForex Data Files -** opens **History Center > JForex Import**

  * **Strategy**
    * **Recalculate Strategy** - recalculates the active strategy

  * **Trading** 
    * **Start/Stop Trade All** - Starts/Stops trading all connected strategies
    * **Trader Auto Start -** automatically start trading a list of strategies
    * **Install MetaTrader 4 Expert...** - Starts the expert installer for MT4
    * **MetaTrader 4 Expert Files** - shows you the directory containing the expert files. You can use those if you wish to install the expert manually

  * **Help**
    * **View Online Help -** link to the online help on forexsb.com
    * **Support Forum -** communicate with our team and users on the forexsb.com support forum
    * **Purchase License -** will take you to the Purchase License page online where you can buy a license for FSB Pro
    * **Enter License Code --link**
    * **About -** shows the current licensing status of the program, the version and other information

===== Main Toolbar =====

{{:fsbpro_guide:ui_overview_toolbar_menu.png?500|Main Toolbar}}

This menu contains shortcuts to the commands in the Main Menu, it consists of 4 general parts:

  * Commands
  * Main Tabs (Start Page, History Center, Strategy Collections, Control Panel)
  * Bottom panels (Output Log, Trade Status, Trade Journal)
  * Right-side panels (Additional Statistics, Strategy Explorer, Portfolio)

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