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Menu Bar


The menu bar contains the following menus:

File Menu

The File menu contains the following menu choices:

Save

This menu choice saves the parameters that have been modified in the User's Preference File, on UNIX in $HOME/.sdtpref, and in Windows in %HOME%\sdt.ini

But, before saving the preference settings, the user will be warned if there are modified preferences that are defined as company or project preferences:

Figure 61 : Attempting to save a modified project or organization parameter

Caution!

Consider the implications before you click Save.

When the save has been performed the user will be warned that changes will not be in effect before the tools have been restarted.

Revert

The menu choice reverts all preference parameters to the currently saved values, as they were defined when starting the Preference Manager. The Revert command requires to be confirmed, in case any preference parameters are modified and have not been saved:

Figure 62 : The Confirm to Revert dialog

Info

This menu choice issues a message with information about the preference source for the preference parameters.

Figure 63 : Information about preference sources

The message shows four items:

See Preference Files for more information on preference files and search order.

Edit Menu

The Edit menu contains the following menu choices:

Set Saved Value

This command restores the selected parameter to its currently saved value. The menu choice is also available from the pop-up menu.

Set Default Value

This command restores the selected parameter to its default value (i.e. factory setting). The menu choice is also available from the pop-up menu.

Unsave

This command allows to remove a preference parameter from the User's Preference File when saving the file, i.e. Unsave it. The command is available on user-defined parameters only; user-defined parameters are shown with their Value Sources set to [User].

A dialog is displayed following invocation of the command:

Figure 64 : The Unsave dialog

View Menu

The View menu contains the following menu choices:

Expand

This menu choice is available only if the currently selected object is a tool node. The command expands the subtree starting from the selected tool, making all parameters for that tool visible.

The operation is also available from the pop-up menu and with a double-click.

Expand All

This command expands the entire tree, thus making all parameter nodes visible.

The operation is also available from the pop-up menu.

Collapse

This menu choice is available only if the currently selected object is a tool node. The command collapses the parameter nodes belonging to the current tool, leaving only the tool node visible in the subtree.

The operation is also available from the pop-up menu and with a double-click.

Collapse All

This menu choice collapses all tool nodes and hides the parameter nodes. Only the root node and the tool nodes are left visible.

The operation is also available from the pop-up menu

View Options

This menu choice issues a modeless dialog, the View Options dialog:

Figure 65 : The View Options dialog

The dialog contains the following toggle buttons:

Tool Bar

This button controls the presence of the quick buttons.

The tool bar is visible by default.

Status Bar

This option determines whether the Status Bar should be visible or not.

The status bar is by default visible.

Filter Field and Filter Button

If the Filter Button is on, the Tree Area will only show the preference parameters which name contain the text string that is entered in the Filter Field.

Note:

The name of a preference parameter consists of a combination of a tool name and of the parameter itself (see Syntax of Preference Files).

The filter option compares the text strings without respect to upper or lower case characters.

By default, no filtering is applied.

Tool Names

This option controls whether the prefix in preference parameters (consisting of the tool name and of an asterisk) should be displayed or not (see Syntax of Preference Files).

Tool names are not displayed by default.

Saved Values

This option determines whether the saved values should be made visible or not. The saved values are the values that are currently stored on the preference files.

Saved values are displayed within one level of parentheses (saved value). See Example 13.

Saved values are displayed by default.

Default Values

This option determines whether the default values (i.e. factory settings) should be made visible or not.

Default values are displayed within two levels of parentheses ((default value)). See Example 13.

Default values are not displayed by default.

Value Sources

This option determines whether the Preference Source for the parameters should be displayed or not. A preference parameter may be retrieved from any of the following sources:

Source values are displayed within brackets [] and are not visible by default.

Descriptions

This option determines whether an informative text should be displayed or not. The text is purely informational and provides an additional description of the function of the preference parameter. See Example 13.

Parameter descriptions are not displayed by default.

Set Scale

This menu choice opens a dialog where you may set the scale used in the preferences window. The scale may be set between 20% and 800%. 100% is the default.

Tools Menu

The Tools menu contains one menu choice:


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