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Preferences Manager User Interface
The items that build up the Preferences Manager window are:
- The Tree Area
- The The Interface Area
- The Menu Bar
Tree Area
The tree area displays the tools that obey to the preference mechanism in the tools and their respective preference parameters. The notation uses a graphical approach featuring a tree with icons symbolizing the various items that are managed by the tool.
Node Syntax
Each node in the tree represents either a:
The Preference Manager only supports the SDL Suite tools, and the common tools. See Customizing the TTCN Suite (on UNIX), for information about how to customize the TTCN Suite on UNIX.
- parameter node
- the name of the parameter
- the current value for the parameter
- the saved value and the default value within one or two parentheses: (( ))
- the Preference Source within brackets, [], i.e. whether it is a company or project or user-defined setting
- a descriptive text providing additional information about the preference parameter.
Example 13 : A Line in the Preferences Window
Given the following line in the Preferences window, with all View Options turned "on":
The information on the line in Figure 59 should be interpreted as:
The tree is a visualization of the merged preference parameters, supplied from different sources (see Search Order When Reading Preference Parameters), as the tools will perceive them. Furthermore, each node in the tree can be collapsed or expanded (see Collapse) in order to reduce or extend the amount of information that is visible, thus facilitating the work with the tool. It is also possible to filter the information that is displayed with respect to various view options (see View Options).
Dirty Notification
When a preference parameter is modified but not saved, this is indicated by the icon appearance changing from a light color to a gray pattern. The parent tool node and the root node are also marked as dirty when any parameter is changed.
The Interface Area
The interface section located under the tree view is where values are edited in an Edit Area. The type of Edit Area varies with the type of value selected.
There are different types of preference parameters:
- Textual Preference
- Option Menu Preference
- Option Menu Textual Preference
- Font Preference (Windows only)
- Boolean Preference
- Ranged Integer Preference
- File Preference
- Directory Preference
- Color Menu Preference
- The preference parameter may be selected from a number of predefined values in the option menu.1
Font Preference (Windows only)
- The font must be selected by clicking the folder button, which opens a Microsoft Windows Font dialog. It is not possible to edit the text field to the left of the folder button.
- In the dialog, all fonts in the system are listed. It is also possible to select font style and size, but these values have no effect; only the specified font name is used.
- Any font name can be entered by editing the Font text field in the font dialog. This possibility is useful when setting a font for printing that is not available in the system, but exists on the printer.
- The three font names "Times", "Helvetica" and "Courier" are recognized. These are translated into the TrueType fonts Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New, respectively.
- When using other fonts than the three mentioned above for printing, the preference Print*DestinationFormat should be set to MSWPrint to get the best result for symbols that are adjusted to the text size.
1 When the mouse pointer is moved over a value in the option menu, a short description of the value is printed in the status bar. Values whose description starts with "(UNIX only)" or "(Windows only)" should only be selected on a UNIX system or a Windows system, respectively.
Selecting a parameter and editing its value with the provided UI device changes its value. The parameter's icon is set as dirty (see Dirty Notification).
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