• Logisim home page
• Guide to Being a Logisim User
  • Beginner's tutorial
    • Step 0: Orienting yourself
    • Step 1: Adding gates
    • Step 2: Adding wires
    • Step 3: Adding text
    • Step 4: Testing your circuit
  • Libraries and attributes
    • The explorer pane
    • The attribute table
    • Tool and component attributes
  • Subcircuits
    • Creating circuits
    • Using subcircuits
    • Debugging subcircuits
    • Logisim libraries
  • Wire bundles
    • Creating bundles
    • Splitters
    • Wire colors
  • Combinational analysis
    • Opening Combinational Analysis
    • Editing the truth table
    • Creating expressions
    • Generating a circuit
  • Menu reference
    • The File menu
    • The Edit menu
    • The Project menu
    • The Simulate menu
    • The Window and Help menus
  • Memory components
    • Poking memory
    • Pop-up menus and files
    • Hex editor
  • Logging
    • The Selection tab
    • The Table tab
    • The File tab
  • Application preferences
    • The Template tab
    • The Tools tab
    • The International tab
    • The Experimental tab
    • The command line
  • Project options
    • The Canvas tab
    • The Simulation tab
    • The Toolbar tab
    • The Mouse tab
  • Value propagation
    • Gate delays
    • Oscillation errors
    • Shortcomings
  • JAR libraries
    • Gray Code Incrementer
    • Library Class
    • Simple Gray Code Counter
    • Gray Code Counter
    • Guidelines
  • About the program
    • GNU General Public License
• Library Reference
  • Base library
    • Poke Tool
    • Edit Tool
    • Select Tool
    • Wiring Tool
    • Text Tool
    • Menu Tool
    • Splitter
    • Pin
    • Probe
    • Clock
    • Text
  • Gates library
    • Constant
    • NOT Gate
    • Buffer
    • AND/OR/NAND/NOR Gate
    • XOR/XNOR/Even/Odd Gate
    • Controlled Buffer/Inverter
  • Plexers library
    • Multiplexer
    • Demultiplexer
    • Decoder
    • Priority Encoder
    • Bit Selector
  • Arithmetic library
    • Adder
    • Subtractor
    • Multiplier
    • Divider
    • Negator
    • Comparator
    • Shifter
  • Memory library
    • D/T/J-K/S-R Flip-Flop
    • Register
    • Counter
    • Shift Register
    • Random
    • RAM
    • ROM
  • Input/Output library
    • Button
    • Joystick
    • Keyboard
    • LED
    • 7-Segment Display
    • Hex Digit Display
    • LED Matrix
    • TTY
  • Legacy library
    • Logisim 1.0 D/J-K Flip-Flop
    • Logisim 1.0 8-Bit Register

The Tools tab

This tab includes options affecting how the built-in tools behave.

• After Adding Component: By default, after adding each individual component, Logisim switches back to the Edit Tool to allow you to move components around and to add wires. This option allows you to configure this behavior so that Logisim stays at the same tool for adding more of the same component, until you yourself opt to choose the Edit Tool. (This was Logisim's default behavior prior to Logisim 2.3.0. While more intuitive, this behavior required moving the mouse more to switch between tools.)

• Show Ghosts While Adding: When checked, and when a tool for adding a new component is selected, a light-gray outline of a component to be added is drawn as the mouse moves across the canvas. For example, if you select the AND gate tool and move the mouse into the window (without pressing the mouse's button), a gray outline of an AND gate will display where the AND gate will appear when the mouse is clicked. Unselecting the check box will disable this behavior.

Next: The International tab.