Editor++ Configuration
The Editor++ Configuration dialog controls the look and feel of the Editor++. The dialog is launched from the Editor Configuration menu item in the Options menu of the Editor++. There are hree (3) tabs within the Editor++ Configuration dialog. Each tab and its contents are outlined below.
Editor Interface tab
Group | Item | Description |
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Editor Interface | Maximize Children | When checked, all child windows will in the Editor++ will open maximized. |
Show Button Toolbar | When checked, the button toolbar is visible. | |
Show Line Numbers | When checked, line numbers appear on the left hand side of the child windows. | |
Show Status Section | When checked, the Status Area of the Editor++ will be displayed. | |
Use Tabbed Panes | When checked, Tabs will appear along the top of the Editor++ for the individual children opened. | |
Save Tabs on Close | When checked, the entities that are opened within the Editor++ at Close, will be stored and opened at the next launch of the Editor++. | |
Find | Case Sensitive | When checked, the Case Sensitive option on the Find Text tab of the Status Area will be checked. |
Find Whole Word | When checked, the Find Whole Word option on the Find Text tab of the Status Area will be checked. | |
Find & Replace | Case Sensitive | When checked, the Case Sensitive option on the Replace Text tab of the Status Area will be checked. |
Find Whole Word | When checked, the Find Whole Word option on the Replace Text tab of the Status Area will be checked. |
Code Interface Tab
Group | Item | Description |
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Code Interface | Convert Keyword Case | When checked, the Editor++ will convert keywords to the case that is defined with the Basic+ Keyword Configuration. |
Double Click Opens Entity | When checked and the user double clicks on a stored procedure call within a child window, another window will open containing the source code for the clicked procedure. | |
Auto Complete Braces | When checked and an open parentheses, bracket or brace is typed, the closing parentheses, bracket or brace is automatically entered. | |
Use Call Tips | When checked, the Editor++ will display the parameters of the stored procedure upon entering the open parenthesis after the procedure/function name. The call tips are derived from the basicplus.api file in the REVBOOT directory. | |
Selection Color | Displays the ChooseColor dialog for selection of the color to use for highlighted text. | |
Tab Stops | Tab Stops | The number of spaces to be used within a tab stop. |
Indent Chars | Tabs | When selected, the indent characters used will be tabs. |
Spaces | When selected, the indent characters used will be spaces. | |
Font | Font | Displays the ChooseFont dialog box for selection of the font to be used within the Editor++. |
Colorization | Do Not Color Code | When checked, the Editor++ will not colorize source code. |
Color Keywords | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize keywords. Keywords are defined in the Basis+ Keyword Configuration dialog. | |
Color Numbers | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize numbers. | |
Color Identifiers | For future use. | |
Color Quotes | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize numbers. | |
Color Comments | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize comments and comment blocks. | |
Color Operators | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize Operators. i.e, + / =. | |
Color Labels | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize Labels within a stored procedure. | |
Color Preprocessors | When checked, the Editor++ will colorize preprocessor statements such as PRAGMA and IFDEF statements. |
Editor Dialogs Tab
Group | Item | Description |
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Global Find & Replace | Show Inherited | When checked, the Global Find & Replace tool will search and display inherited entities. |
Case Sensitive | When checked, the Case Sensitive option on the Global Find & Replace dialog will be checked. | |
Find Whole Word | When checked, the Find Whole Word option on the Global Find & Replace dialog will be checked. | |
Recompile All | When checked, the Recompile All option on the Global Find & Replace dialog will be checked. | |
Open Record | Show Index Tables | When checked, the Open Record dialog will display the Index files in the Table list. |
Show Dictionary Tables | When checked , the Open Record dialog will display the DICT. files in the Table list. | |
Open OS | Default Extension | The default extension to be used in the Open File dialog box. |
Default Folder | The default location to be used in the Open File dialog box. | |
Open Procedure | Show Inherited | When checked, the Open Stored Procedure dialog will include inherited entities for selection. |
Multiple Selection | When checked, the Open Stored Procedure dialog will allow the selection of multiple entities for opening. | |
Open Insert | Show Inherited | When checked, the Open Insert dialog will include inherited entities for selection. |
Multiple Selection | When checked, the Open Insert dialog will allow the selection of multiple entities for opening. | |
Open Event | Only Show Controls With Events | When checked, the Open Windows Event Handler dialog will only list controls which contain events. |