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Here is a brief description of each of the menus (note that some of them are avaibale only when the connection is opened to a database). The descriptions of the various functionnalities are more in depth in the chapters of this documentation dealing with each functionnality.
'File':
'New workspace', 'Open', 'Close', 'Save', 'Save as': these are the usual menu entries to save the work to a file, and to load that file back to resume working with it.
'Export': this will allow the contents of the database to be exported to a file (and to be restored at another time). This is not yet implemented.
'Print setup': this is the first step towards supporting printing in gASQL...
'Exit': leave the application (if necessary the modified data may be saved); gASQL asks for confirmation before exiting.
'Connection': this menu manages the connection to the DBMS using libgda. The first item ('Preferences') is used to select from the possibly multiple connections pre-configured, enter a username and a password. The other two items are used to open and close the connection (same functionnality as for the corresponding buttons in the toolbar).
'Database':
'Relations scheme': displays a graphical view of all the relations that are defined within the database among the tables' fields, sequences ...