Use the Preferences window to customize the VisualAge browsers.
Tabs
The Database tab appears only when the Database feature is loaded in your image. The Parsers tab appears only when the C Language or Cobol Language feature is loaded. To view the tabs, you might need to click on the arrows at the bottom of the preferences notebook.
Push buttons
To open the Preferences window, do either of the following:
Use options on the General tab to set preferences for the following:
Use options under Startup to have VisualAge do the following:
Deselecting Show Quick Start window opens only the VisualAge Organizer window and any other windows that you had open when you last saved your image. The VisualAge Quick Start window does not open.
Use options under Preferred Settings View to select which type of properties or settings views you would like to use.
Use options under Hover Help to have VisualAge do the following:
Use options on the Connections tab to change the colors and endpoints of connections shown in the Composition Editor. The options enable you to change the following:
Use options under Connection Colors to specify the color of connections appearing in a Composition Editor.
To change a connection's color, select the color you want for the connection type from its drop-down list.
Use options under End Point Size to specify the size of endpoints for connections in a Composition Editor.
To change the size of connection endpoints, select the Normal or Large radio button.
Use options on the Browsers tab to set the following preferences for browsers of Smalltalk code:
Use options under Browser Style to display the standard Smalltalk browsers or the enhanced browsers.
To select and use the enhanced browsers, you must load the Trailblazer feature.
For details on the contents of both styles of browsers, refer to the IBM Smalltalk User's Guide.
Use options under Options to set the following preferences for VisualAge browsers:
Selecting Refresh when activated refreshes the lists of applications, parts, and scripts in the browsers after a change is made to the content of a list. By default, Refresh when activated is selected. To speed up the performance of a browser, deselect the option.
Selecting Confirm on deletion displays a prompter asking you to confirm a delete operation before the deletion occurs. Deselecting Confirm on deletion deletes the selected application, part, script, or connection without first asking you to confirm the delete operation.
Selecting Show horizontal scrollbars displays horizontal scroll bars on the browsers.
Selecting Show categories displays script or method categories in the Script Editor and Smalltalk browsers. If you must know whether a script is in a particular category, such as an API category, display the categories.
Deselecting Show categories removes the categories pane, reducing the amount of information displayed in the browsers and making work with scripts somewhat faster.
Selecting Select all categories selects all categories automatically.
Relative size of method list sets the size, by percent, of a scripts or methods pane in the Script Editor and Smalltalk browsers.
Use options under Parsers to change the error message threshold to limit the number of error messages printed to the System Transcript window during parsing. Printing few or no (0) error messages enables the parser to execute more quickly.
The Parsers tab enables you to set the error message threshold for parsers for the following languages: