Changing settings

image\lamp.gifSee locate a setting if you want to locate a specific setting, or see a description of it.

The settings in the Connection Properties, Workspace Options, Options, Project Properties and Build-Tool Properties windows are all displayed and amended using a similar interface.

The Settings windows all have the same menu bar, and the top part of the window looks like this:

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image\hand.gif Move the mouse pointer across the picture and click where you want information.

The left pane displays a hierarchical list of settings. Settings are organized in groups. A group of settings can be stored in a separate file referenced by its parent or it can be in-lined. Use the image\plus.gif and image\minus.gif in the usual way to expand and contract the list.

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image\diskicon.gif is a group of settings stored in a separate file

image\fold.gif and image\page.gif are both used for a group containing settings, or other groups of settings.

Click on the icon to display the settings in the right pane. A red box is drawn round the selected group, and the Description at the top of the window changes:

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The right pane displays a list of settings and their values for the group highlighted in the left pane. The icon at the left indicates the type of setting:

image\diskicon.gif A pathname to a specified file. To change the value, either select Edit value from the context menu to invoke in-place editing, or Edit as filename to display a file selection dialog.

image\fold.gif A folder containing a group of settings. Double-click to expand.

image\toggle.gif A boolean value that can be set to True or False, from the context menu. Alternatively, you can toggle between the two using image\tog.gif.

image\string.gif A string value. Settings of this type are normally used to specify a name or a filename. To change the value, either select Edit value from the context menu to invoke in-place editing, or Edit as filename to display a file selection dialog.

image\switch.gif A setting that can take one of a set of standard values or options. When you edit this setting, the context menu displays the list from which you can choose a value. If there are only two values, you can usually toggle between them using image\tog.gif.

If you create an ordered list for a setting, for example, BoardChip name in the Connection properties window, you can use the context menu option Manage List… to organize the list. This option displays the Settings: List Manager dialog.

image\noval.gif A setting that is set to a number. To change the value, either select Edit value from the context menu to invoke in-place editing, or you can select a new value from the list displayed on the context menu.

image\lamp.gif * indicates that a setting is different from the default value.

If you right-click anywhere in a Settings window, you see a context menu:

Show me left pane context menus

Show me right pane context menus