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If you wish to change the program settings concerning the program in general, enter the Setup menu and click on General. The general configuration dialog is shown below.
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General program settings. |
Check this field to share the editor settings between all users. All users must have read/write access to the program directory.
If this option is not checked, each user can define its user-specific settings, i.e.:
These settings are stored in Windows (under USERNAME), so every user gets "his" Editor after logging in.
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If a user does not have read/write access to the program directory, this option is disabled. |
When this field is checked, CIMCO Edit v7 will always start maximized, i.e. filling up the whole screen.
When this field is checked, the editor will start with the same window size and position as the last time the editor was used.
When this field is checked, Edit windows will be opened maximized.
Check this field to use warnings beeps (switch this off for silent operation).
Check this field to prevent read-only files from being modified or edited.
Check this field to backup the previous version when saving a file. The backup file is named filename.BAK.
When this field is checked, the editor will check if a file is modified outside the editor.
If a file is modified outside the editor, you will be notified and you will be asked if you want to reload the file. If you choose to do that, any changes made since the last save will be lost.
Check this field if the result of NC-Assistant macro formulas should be hidden.
Check this field if you want to be able to open the same file in more than one window in the editor.
Select this option to show the full path of files in the window title.
Check this field if you wish to specify a filename when using the Transmission tab function Receive file and open in editor.
Check this field if the file dialog should always show all files.
Select this option to re-open files when the program is started.
Check this field to place the cursor at the position where it was when the file was last opened.
Check this field to confirm when closing the program.
Check this field to hide the Download Latest Version link from the Help menu.
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You must restart the editor after changing this option. |
Select the language to be used in menus and dialogs.
The following languages are currently available: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwan, and Thai.
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Changing language will not have effect until the program is restarted. |
Use this field to specify the tab width in characters.
Select from the list, how the file size should be displayed in the status bar.
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The file size can be shown in bytes, in meter, or in feet. |
Select the color theme to be used in CIMCO Edit.
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Changing color theme will not have effect until the program is restarted. |
Use this field to specify the number of files shown in the Recent List.
Use this field to specify how many line feed characters that should be used to calculate the file size shown in the status bar.
Example: If you specify a value of 2, and the file contains 12 lines, 24 bytes will be added to the file size shown in the status bar.
Use this field to change the default size of the simulation window in percent of the screen size. The default value is 66 %. Decrease this value to show NC files with long program lines, or increase the value to enlarge the simulation window.
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You can resize the Backplot window between 10-90% of default value 66%. |
Click this button to associate file extensions (*.NC,*.H, etc.) with CIMCO Edit, overwriting the current association.
When you click this button, CIMCO Edit re-associates all the extensions defined for each file type under File types - Load/Save.