Set your WindowMaker preferences

Using the WindowMaker configuration screen, you can configure preferences and options affecting the behavior of WindowMaker. You can:

• Change the title bar text.

• Display the grid or turn off the grid.

• Change the spacing between the pixels on the grid.

• Show the tag count.

• Change the default fonts for text and buttons.

• Set the precision for line selection.

• Set an option to close WindowMaker when switching to WindowViewer.

• Set an option to pick through hollow objects.

• Enable fast switch from WindowMaker to WindowViewer.

• Set the number of undo levels.

Set the properties for WindowMaker

1. On the File menu, select Configure, and then select WindowMaker.

   The WindowMaker configuration screen appears.

   

2. In the WindowMaker configuration of editing environment area, configure the appearance of the title bar. Do any of the following:

   • In the Title bar text box, type the text to appear in the title bar during design time.

   • In the Supertag template path, specify the path to store the Supertag template.

3. Select the Store Supertags data in application directory check box to store the Supertags data in the application directory. This will override the path specified in the Supertag template path field.

4. Configure miscellaneous window properties. Do any of the following:

   • Select the Show tag count check box to show the number of tagnames in your Tagname Dictionary in the menu bar. If you have a lot of tags, showing the tag count can impact the Tagname Dictionary performance.

     This is useful if you are creating an application with a limited Tagname Dictionary size. The tagname count does not include remote tagname references or system tags. Select Update Use Counts on the Home tab to find out your remote tagname reference usage.

   • Select the Lock window size check box to lock the size of the InTouch application window.

     This allows you to convert the application to a different resolution without scaling the window and graphics.

   • Select the Pick through hollow objects check box to select objects that are behind hollow objects.

     This enables you to select an object within a frame without having to send the frame to the background.

   • Select the Enable fast switch check box to use the "fast switch" to toggle between WindowMaker and WindowViewer.

     The fast switch is the word Runtime that appears in the upper right corner of WindowMaker. In WindowViewer, it is the word Development.

     When enable the fast switch, WindowMaker automatically saves all changes made to all open windows before switching to WindowViewer.

   • Select the Close on transfer to WindowViewer check box to close WindowMaker automatically when you start WindowViewer.

     The purpose of this option is to conserve limited memory. If memory is not an issue and you are moving often between WindowViewer and WindowMaker, do not select this option.

     When you select Close on transfer to WindowViewer, the reciprocal command, Close WindowViewer, on the General Properties tab in the WindowViewer Properties screen is also selected.

   • Select the Show grid check box to show the grid.

   • Select Disable script autocomplete to disable the display of autocomplete suggestions list box.

   • In the Line selection precision box, type the number of pixels your cursor can be away from a line and still be able to select it.

     In most cases, the default setting of 4 works well.

   • In the Levels of undo box, type the number of Undo and Redo levels to maintain.

     You can have up to 25 levels. If you type zero, the undo/redo function is turned off.

     One level represents one action. The Undo and Redo stacks are empty when you create a new window or open an existing window. Both stacks are emptied when you close a window.

   • In the Grid spacing box, type the number of pixels between the grid coordinates.

5. You can also configure the font properties for the text, button, and script editor using the Text font, Button font, and Script Editor font fields respectively.

6. You can override these defaults in any window by using the Font settings on the respective screens.

7. Select OK.

8. Restart WindowMaker to apply any changes you made.