You can run the Symbol Editor under the Windows®
or UNIX® operating systems. The
startup conditions are the same in both cases.
You can run the Symbol Editor under
Windows in either of two ways:
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In the Start menu, click All Programs > Rogue Wave > Rogue Wave JViews Diagrammer 8.10 > Symbol Editor .Rogue Wave® is the default program group and might be different if you have installed JViews Diagrammer into a different program group.
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Go to the directory <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer810/bin/symboleditor.
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Double-click run.bat.
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To run the Symbol Editor under UNIX:
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Go to the directory <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer810/bin/symboleditor.Make sure that your PATH environment variable is set correctly to find this directory.
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Enter run.sh.
When you start the Symbol Editor, the
interface is displayed as shown in the following figure.
![diasym_interface4.png](../../JViews_Diagrammer/usrsymboldiag/_media/diasym_interface4_default.png)
The Symbol Editor window
The way the Symbol Editor operates depends on the mode it is in.
You can see the current mode in the title bar, and you can
change the mode using the buttons in the vertical toolbar. For
more information about modes, see Working in different modes.
To close the Symbol Editor:
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Click File > Exit.
Note
The Symbol Editor stores the interface
status when the application is closed.