User's Guide

Changing the settings of parts

Every part has specific characteristics that help define its default behavior and appearance. You change the settings of parts using the Properties or Settings windows.

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By default, VisualAge displays the Properties table windows, which list attributes whose values you can change by their Smalltalk names. To use the notebook-style Settings windows similar to those used for Version 3.0, load the configuration map VisualAge, Settings Views. To return to the Properties windows, unload the configuration map or, in the VisualAge Organizer, select Preferences from the Options menu, select Properties Table (Recommended) and then OK.

Using Properties or Settings windows

To open the Properties or Settings window of a part, do any of the following:

Properties windows

Properties windows list the attributes of a part that have settable values in a table. To change the value for a property, do as follows:

  1. In the Name column, select the property.
  2. In the Value column, specify a different value, such as true instead of false.

The part is updated with the new property value when you change a property's value and click anywhere outside of the value cell for the property you just changed or close the supplementary dialog used to change the part's property.

Settings windows

Settings windows use a notebook control with several tabs and pages to display the part's settings information. Here are some tips for navigating through the tabs and pages of the notebook control of the Settings window:

Select OK or Apply to apply changes to the settings.

Additional information about the individual settings of a part can be found in the following places:


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