6 Invoking commands

When you have a Bio-PEPA which has no associated errors or warnings then you can perform simulations and other analysis by invoking the commands listed in the Bio-PEPA menu in the Eclipse menu bar. These commands will only be available when the active window in Eclipse is the Bio-PEPA editor window. You can identify the active window because it is outlined in blue and has a blue tab at the top, as circled in red in Figure 22. When the Bio-PEPA editor window is the active window then you will be able to choose options such as “Time-Series Analysis” from the Bio-PEPA menu.

If the editor is not selected then it will not be possible to invoke commands from the menu. These will be greyed out and will not become active until the editor is made the active window by clicking on the tab at the top. At this point the tab at the top of the editor window will change from white to blue and the commands in the Bio-PEPA menu will become available.

Figure 22: Bio-PEPA commands are available if the editor is selected. The circled blue tab indicates that the editor is selected.

Figure 23: Bio-PEPA commands are not available if the editor is not selected. The circled tab indicates that the editor is not selected.