Main Window

Page Contents

Overview
Menu Bar
Toolbar
Work Area
Console
Customer Feedback Options
Building

Overview

When PreEmptive Protection - DashO is launched, the user interface displays on the desktop. The default view, shown below, is the Input panel.

The DashO user interface consists of five activity zones:

Name	Location
Menu Bar	At the top, the familiar Menu Bar.
Toolbar	Below the Menu Bar is the Toolbar containing icons of frequently accessed actions.
Navigation Tree	Below the Toolbar and to the left of the Work Area is the Navigation Tree that organizes the specification and command activities for the Project.
Work Area	The Work Area consumes the most real estate in the main window. As the name suggests, this is where work activity occurs.
Console	At the bottom, a scrollable console pane is provided for viewing output.

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In most cases, leading and trailing whitespace found in text entries will be trimmed.

Menu Item	Sub Menu Item	Description
File	New Project	Create a new, empty project.
	Project Wizard…	Use the New Project Wizard to have DashO create a project for you.
	Open Project	Open an existing project.
	Recent Projects	Open, or see a list of, recently accessed projects.
	Save Project	Save a new or modified project.
	Save Project As	Save an existing or modified project with a different name and/or in a different location.
	Download Sample Projects	Opens a browser to download the sample projects.
	Exit	Exit and close DashO.
Project	Build Project	Obfuscate a project.
	Cancel	Only available when building or refreshing a project. Cancel enables you to cancel a build or a reload.
	Reload Class List	Available when new classes are added to a project.
	View Project	Only available when a project is saved after modification or creation. Enables you to view an existing project as a text file.
	View Report File	Only available when a report is saved after modification or creation. Enables you to view an existing report.
	View Renaming Report File	Only available when a renaming report file is saved after modification or creation. Enables you to view an existing renaming report file.
Window	Decode Stack Trace...	Recover the stack trace from an obfuscated program. See Decoding Stack Traces.
	Shelf Life Token...	Create a Shelf Life token that can be saved to a file. See Generate Shelf Life Token.
	Preferences...	Select general and DashO Engine options. See User Preferences.
Help	Help	Instant access to DashO assistance.
	Check for Updates	Check to ensure you have the most recent version of DashO.
	Customer Feedback Options...	Participate in DashO's anonymous customer feedback program.
	About PreEmptive Protection - DashO...	Provides information about the installed copy of DashO.

Note:
On macOS, About PreEmptive Protection - DashO..., Preferences..., and Quit PreEmptive Protection - DashO (rather than Exit) are available under PreEmptive Protection - DashO.

Icon	Icon Name	Function
	New Project	Click to create a new project using the project wizard.
	Open Project	Click to open an existing project.
	Save Project	Click to save a new or modified project.
	Project Save As	Click to save an existing or modified project with a different name and/or in a different location.
	Reload Class List	Click to refresh the class list when new sources are added to it.
	Build Project	Click to obfuscate a project.
	Cancel Build	Click to cancel an in-progress project build
	Help	Click to access to this User Guide.

Work Area

The content of the Work Area is dependent upon the item selected in the Navigation Tree.

Note:
The Work Area contains toggle buttons. The ▼ enables the user to increase the size of the Work Area by collapsing the Console. The Console can be expanded by clicking the ▲.

Console

The console area contains two tabs:

Console – Displays progress of project creation and build and provides a count of errors, warnings, and informational messages.
Problems – Lists any informational, warning, error, and fatal messages encountered during obfuscation and project creation.

Customer Feedback Options

DashO provides an anonymous usage reporting system that users can opt-in to. If you opt in to this program, only anonymous high level usage data will be gathered by PreEmptive Solutions with the sole intent of improving DashO. You may change your options at any time from the Help > Customer Feedback Options menu.

Building

There are two ways to build in the user interface. You can click the Build Project button on the Toolbar or select Project > Build Project in the Menu.

During and after the build, you may view DashO's output in the console area.

The build performs method/field removal, renaming, control flow, string encryption, optimization, and writing and packaging of the final classes. This may take up to several minutes depending on the number of classes DashO needs to process.

When the build has completed DashO will show the results panel in the work area screen automatically. If the build encountered an error the console display will switch to the Problems tab. Multiple warnings may be emitted during the build, but the process will stop immediately if an error is encountered.