Editor Pane

Use the Editor pane, which is located on the left side of the Script Editor, to write your scripts in. You can customize the appearance of your script in the Editor pane by using the View Options dialog.

There are two methods that you can use to write your scripts. You can manually enter your script into the pane, and you can insert script snippets from the BarTender code snippet library by using the Script Assistant pane to select the snippet that you want. When you double-click a snippet in the Script Assistant pane, the script is automatically inserted into the Editor pane.

An alternative to using the Script Assistant pane is to press Ctrl+J on your keyboard to open a pop-up snippet menu. Start typing the snippet name. When the matching snippets appear in the list, you can click a snippet to display an expanded pop-up of the full snippet script. When you find the snippet that you want to add to the Editor pane, double-click it, or click it and then press Enter on your keyboard.