Launcher Window

On the left of the title bar are the icon, the robot's name and its publisher. On the right are the robot controls. This is the only place where the robot is started, paused and stopped.

• Start (F5) starts a stopped robot. If the launch profile has an error, the button is disabled and its tooltip names the error.

• Pause (F6) is shown while the robot runs. See Pause and stop.

• Continue (F5) is shown while the robot is paused.

• Stop (Shift+F5) is shown while the robot runs or is paused. It opens the stop dialog.

• Cancel is shown while the robot prepares to start; it calls the preparation off.

The «…» button (More Actions) opens a menu: for a running LIVE robot, Cancel Orders… and Close Position… (see Manual actions), then About the Robot (publisher, version, support), How to Start a Robot from XTester Studio, Help (Ctrl+F1) and About.

The menu on the left switches pages: Terminal, Statistics, Journal, Profile, Connections, Settings. A page fills the window; when you go to another page it keeps its state: the charts are not reloaded and unsaved profile changes are not lost.

• Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+6 open the pages in menu order; Settings also opens with Ctrl+,.

• The button at the bottom of the menu (Ctrl+B) folds the menu to its icons. In a window narrower than 1200 pixels the menu folds by itself unless you unfolded it by hand.

• An exclamation mark on Connections means there are no API keys for LIVE.

• A dot on Profile means the launch profile has unsaved changes.

You can move through the menu with the up and down arrows and open a page with Enter or Space.

The left of the status bar shows the mode and state of the robot; the right shows the result, the data and notifications.

• Mode (Paper, LIVE · Sandbox or LIVE · Mainnet). A click opens the Profile page, where the mode is changed.

• State: Not started, Preparing…, Running (with the uptime), Paused, Stopping…, Stopped or Error with its reason. The tooltip explains more.

• Intervention appears when something on the exchange was changed without the robot's command; a click opens the journal. See Intervention.

• PnL and today are the robot's result; a click opens Statistics. The tooltip says exactly what is counted.

• Data: Data online, Data: loading …%, Data stopped, Data: failed or No data.

• The bell opens the notification center; a dot on it means unread notifications.

While a LIVE robot trades on Mainnet (with real money), the whole status bar turns orange. In Paper and Sandbox it keeps its usual color.

F1 or Ctrl+Shift+P open the command palette: start typing a name and pick a command. It has the page commands, a new chart, chart splitting, the positions panel, folding the menu, the color theme, help and About.

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The palette cannot start or stop the robot or cancel orders: dangerous actions are only on the title bar buttons and in the «…» menu.

The robot's events appear as notifications at the bottom right and are collected in the notification center (the bell in the status bar). The progress of a start is one notification with its steps and a Cancel the Start button.

Many notifications have a button: Open the Journal, Why? or a button that leads to the fix, such as Open Connections. Which notifications to show is set in Settings.

If the system has a tray, the launcher has an icon there with a menu: Show (open the window), Stop (the same stop dialog as the Stop button) and Exit.

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1. Launcher icon

Minimizing to the tray on close and opening minimized are set in Settings.

While the robot runs or is paused, the computer does not go to sleep by itself: asleep, the robot misses the market. The display can still turn off. If you put the computer to sleep yourself, it sleeps.

Choose About Robot from the “…” menu. The dialog shows the robot name, publisher, version and support link saved by its package author.

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1. Seller details
2. Document
3. Close

When seller details or documents are included, Documents and Seller opens them in this dialog. Seller fields and complete document texts are available without network access.

This view is for reading: text remains literal and remote resources are not loaded. Reopening it creates no new acceptance. When an updated required document needs consent, the Documents on First Launch flow is used.

If the button is absent, check whether this package includes seller details or author documents. Packages without them do not show the additional viewer; use the robot’s support link for questions.