The Format popup menu above the info pane of the dictionary window changes the form in which the information is shown. By default, there are two choices here, “AppleScript” and “sdef Outline”.

Script Debugger’s dictionary display is generated from some XML created behind the scenes. This XML is in a sense the “real” contents of the dictionary. The AppleScript setting in the Format popup menu transforms this XML into a nice layout for convenient viewing. The other choice, “sdef Outline”, permits you to view the original XML. The XML presentation has syntax coloring and code folding (meaning you can click on a minus-sign or plus-sign at the left of a line to collapse or expand everything hierarchically below that line).

Users are free to add other transformations. Such additional transformations are installed in ~/Application Support/Script Debugger 4.5/Dictionary Stylesheets and will then appear in the Format popup menu.