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Options window

The Options window allows for the customization of general settings, the editor, fonts and colors, and the graphics window. It can be found by going to Tools > Options.

General

• Check file associations at startup: During startup, Vizard will check if it is the default editor for Python files, and allow you to make it the default if it is not.

• Automatically check for updates: Allow Vizard to periodically check for newer versions and notify you when one is available. You can manually check for updates at any time by clicking on the Help > Check for Updates menu item.

• Disable desktop composition (Aero) while Vizard is running: This option is only available on Windows Vista & 7. Windows Vista introduced the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) which uses the GPU to perform various window compositing effects (transparency, aero flip, window preview, etc...). While these effects look nice they can interfere with performance intensive 3D applications such as Vizard. This option will automatically disable DWM composition while the Vizard IDE or script is running. DWM composition can also be controlled within the script using the viz.dwm_composition option.

Editor

• Save all documents when running script: If another file is modified when running a script, display a prompt to save the modified files.

• Detect external modifications: If a file opened in Vizard is modified by another program, display a prompt asking to accept or ignore the new modifications.

• Strip trailing whitespace on save: Remove all space/tab characters at the end of every line when saving a file.

• Display document tabs in single row: If number of document tabs exceeds width of available space, keep tabs on a single row, otherwise display new row for tabs.

• Enable passive documents: Enable the passive document feature.

• Passive document limit: Set the passive document limit.

• Indentation: Set whether new files should use tab or space characters for indentation, and the indentation/tab size.

Code Analysis

• Display name completions: Display autocomplete options when a name character is entered ( a-z, A-Z, '_' ).

• Display attribute completions: Display autocomplete options when the '.' character is entered for an attribute name.

• Accept completions with Enter key: Accept the active autocomplete suggestion when the enter key is pressed. If this option is disabled, then the autocomplete suggestion is ignored and a newline is inserted. Autocomplete suggestions can also be accepted using the tab key, regardless of this option.

• Automatically add 'self' when defining methods: Automatically add the self argument after typing the open parentheses of a method definition.

• Automatically add missing colons on newline: Automatically add missing colons for block definitions when hitting enter for newline.

• Automatically add missing parentheses after 'print': Automatically add missing parentheses when entering a space character after the print function. Can be helpful when transitioning from Python 2 to 3.

• Syntax Error Checking: This option specifies when Syntax error checking is performed.

• Task list: This option defines the tags that can be used with the Task List.

Fonts and Colors

The following options are available in the Fonts and Colors tab:

• Template:  This option allows for adding templates to save multiple font/color schemes.

• Text Style:  Use this drop down menu to change fonts and colors for each type of text object (e.g. comments, keywords), whitespace, and other objects that appear in the editor (e.g breakpoints).