The components view shows a list of configuration components, sorted by type into Middleware/Peripheral drivers/Other. The view displays configuration components differently based on their status:
- Enabled - Highlights the configuration component in dark gray.
- Enabled/with warning - Highlights the configuration component in dark gray with the alert symbol.
- Enabled/with error - Highlights the configuration component in red with the error symbol.
- Disabled - Highlights the configuration component in light gray.
Figure 1. Components view
In the Components view, you can perform the following actions:
- Display configuration-component information - Point the mouse cursor at the configuration component to display general configuration-component information.
- Open the Settings Editor of the configuration component - Left-click the configuration component to open its Settings Editor.
- View Configuration component documentation - Right-click the configuration component and choose Documentation from the dropdown menu to view configuration-component documentation. If the configuration component isn't documented, the option is highlighted in gray.
- Remove the component from configuration - Right-click the configuration
component and choose Remove from the dropdown menu.Note: If the component has any global settings, a dialog appears prompting you to confirm the removal. If the component doesn't have any global settings, the component is deleted after removing the last instance.
- Enable/disable the configuration component - Right-click the configuration component and choose Enable or Disable to enable/disable the configuration component.
- Move the configuration component to another functional group - Right-click the configuration component and choose Move to to select from a list of functional groups to move the configuration component to.
- Copy the configuration component to another functional group - Right-click the configuration component and choose Copy to to select from a list of functional groups to copy the configuration component to.
- Add new configuration components - Left-click the + button and choose from the list to add a new component. You can filter the list to show only toolchain-project-relevant, or latest version components. You can also click the + buttons next to Middleware/Peripheral drivers/Other categories to add new components in them directly.
- Filter configuration components by name - Type a text string to filter configuration component names in the search bar.