CrossStudio has a built-in editor which allows you to edit text, but has features that make it particularly well suited to editing code and is referred to as either the Text Editor or the Code Editor, based on its content.

You can open multiple code editors to view or edit source code in projects and copy and paste among them. The Windows menu contains a list of all open code editors.

The code editor supports the language of the source file that it is editing, showing code with syntax highlighting and offering smart indenting.

You can open a code editor in several ways, some of which are:

Elements of the code editor

The code editor is divided into several elements which are described here.