Workbench
Concepts
Application workbench consists from several views that show different types of information,
and interact with each other, for example when object is selected in one view the other one can show more
details on that object.
You can change layout of your views at any time by dragging them around by the header.
Magic Assistance contains the following views:
MTG Database View - lists all available cards
My Cards View - lists cards that belong to one or more of your collections.
Deck View - lists cards in a deck
Card Info - shows card details of selected card
Card Navigator - shows list of user decks and collections organised in folders
Main Menu
The following actions are available from main menu:
File
- New...
- see New Menu
- Exit
- exit the application
Window
- Reset Perspective...
- reset layout of the views to default
- Preferences
- opens preferences dialog
Help
- Help Contents
- open help viewer
- About Magic Assistance
- open about dialog
- Update Magic Cards Database
- updates magic card database from "gatherer" site
- Send Bug
- opens web browser pointing to project tracker system
New Menu
- Deck
- opens wizard to create a new empty card deck
- Card Collection
- opens wizard to create a new card collection
- Collection Container
- opens a wizard to create a new folder for collections
- Deck Container
- opens a wizard to create a new folder for decks
- Booster Pack
- opens a wizard to create a new deck, prefilled with random cards from selected sets
- Other...
- opens a new wizard selection dialog, currently it is same set as above