The Main Window

The main window of the application consists of the menu bar, toolbar, status box, progress bar and tabbed pages area.

The menu bar

The menu bar contains the following menus:

File - use this menu to perform file operations with services, load from and save to storage file, open recently used services and exit the application.
Service - use this menu to select visible service, to control its running state and to edit its setup.
View - use this menu to show or hide toolbar and status box.
Tools - use this menu to show the Send Message dialog and the Receive Message dialog, to restore all settings to defaults, to protect and unprotect the application with a password, and to display the Options dialog. This menu may also contain additional options which are customizable by the user.
Window - use this menu to quickly find and open desired window, and to show the Arrange Windows dialog.
Help - use this menu to open help topics, and to display the About dialog.

Toolbar

Toolbar contains several options from the File and Service menus of the menu bar. To select the visible service or view the list of opened services click the Select button. Use the Start and Stop buttons to control the running state of the currently visible service. To open the setup dialog of the service click the Setup button.

Status box

Status box displays important status information of the application and the currently visible service. This means, for example, that you do not need to activate the Connections window to see if all connections are connected. Additionally, you can double click on an item in the Status box and SMS Studio will open the most appropriate window.

Progress bar

Progress bar displays a progress of lengthy operations.

Tabbed pages area

Some windows can be docked into the tabbed pages area of the main window. A window may be displayed as a page in the tabbed pages area, or undocked as a normal window which stays on top of the application's main window, or even closed. A window which is docked (as a page in the tabbed pages area), can be activated simply by clicking on its caption area. You can also use the Window menu of the menu bar to activate specific window disregarding its state (docked, undocked or closed).