The workbench refers to the standard collection of graphical and scripting tools available to Vizard users. The picture below is a typical view of what the workbench looks like.
Write & execute your scripts
Inspect 3D models & all your multimedia
Quickly drag & drop content
Issue commands while your world is running
Get context sensitive help
The Vizard workbench consists of four frames. The main frame is in the upper right and it is where your stack of scripts will reside. The upper-left frame is a resource window that gives you a text-based view of all your world's assets. The middle-left frame is a 3D window that let's you explore individual resources both 3D resources and 2D resources such as images and videos. The 3D window also lets you investigate your stage (see Adding to the Stage). Finally, the bottom frame is the Interactive Window that provides a direct portal to Python and allows you to send commands to you world while it's running in real-time (see Interactive Window).
Scripts can be loaded by any of the following methods: 1) Browsing for them using the standard File->Open dialog method or, 2) Right-clicking on a script within Windows Explorer and selecting Edit, or 3) dragging and dropping them into the main frame (upper right region where text scripts are kept).
To run a script, simply do any of the following: 1) Click the run button
on
the main toolbar. This will run whatever script is active in the editor.
2) Press F5, 3) Double click the script file from a shortcut of the .py
file. 4) Run the script from the Script
drop down menu.
Vizard keeps track of the working directory for each individual world you have loaded and automatically searches in that directory when you run that script. This means that as long as the media resources are contained in that working directory, then Vizard will be able to find all the files correctly.