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This menu provides the controls for creating a new system name, making a copy of an existing system name, renaming a current system, exporting a system as an encrypted system, or displaying the system modules and their active script section is controlled by selecting one of the options in this menu.

Notes:
	All system changes are temporary until the "OK" button is pressed.
	Pressing the "Cancel" button after making any changes to one or many systems will allow all the changes to be ignored when the System Editor is closed.

Editor's System Options:	System Menu Option:	Menu Description:
	New	Creates new system name. New system name can be add blox and added to a suite for testing.
	Copy	Copy selected system name so it can be given a new system name and be modified to work differently by changing some of the blox ideas that will be different from the selected system name.
	Delete	Deletes selected system name. When you press the Delete button a dialog will appear requesting confirmation before the selected system name will be erased from Trading Blox and your disk. Note: If you delete a systems by mistake it can be recreated again by using the techniques you would use to create a new system. If the system is a Trading Blox supplied system you can install a new copy of Trading Blox on your computer in a different directory location and the Suite Menu's Export and Import feature to bring back into the Trading Blox installation where it was accidentally deleted. This may also be one of those times when you remember how good a regular back up of your disk will feel.
	Rename	Renames system name selected. Selecting a system name will allow you change the name of system. This can be handy when you are adding or exporting a system version so it can be added to a suite more than once, but tested with different parameter value or portfolio files, or any other idea.
	Export	Creates a protected export file and opens the folder where the file is saved so it can be accessed. This option will Export and Encrypt the selected system name. Exported systems are exported and placed to Export folder as a special encrypted file. Imported encrypted system can be tested in a suite. Exported system parameters are visible and can be changed. Exported systems are added to Trading Blox by placing their file name in the Trading Blox Import Folder before Trading Blox is started. Warning: Be sure that the name of the System and the name of all Blox in the system are unique. We recommend that you use your name, or some other unique identifier, when naming the blox and system modules. If the names used are found during importing they will not conflict with other blox or systems already be Trading Blox installation. When testing an export/import process into the same environment, make a renamed copy of the system and then export, delete the copy, and import. In this way the system name is not duplicated in the same environment. Warning: Never change the name of the exported encrypted ".tbz" file once it is created. It is linked to the system name and blox and changing the name will cause the system to not appear.
	Print	Creates a text document showing all the blox modules and the blox script sections with script statements. Text output is sent to the the default text editor. Clicking this button will generate a report that list all the Blox modules contained in the selected system. In that report each of the modules variables, indicators, parameters and script sections where programming code has been entered will be displayed in a text report that will be displayed in the computer's text editor. Name of the report will be the name of the selected system prefixed with the "Preview". i.e. Print Donchian w Rule Labels.txt will be the name if the Donchian w/Rule Labels System is the selected system.