Chapter 6 Customizing PWB

PWB is a completely customizable development environment. You can modify PWB in the following ways:

Changing mapping of keystrokes to actions.

Changing default behavior of PWB (for example, how tabs are handled or if PWB automatically saves files).

Changing the colors of parts of the PWB display.

Adding new commands to the Run menu.

Programming new editor actions (macros).

You can find instructions on how to write macros in “Writing PWB Macros”.

In addition to the customizations that you can make by using the commands in the Options menu, you can also customize PWB by editing the TOOLS.INI file.

Note :

Another category of customization that is not covered in this book is how to write PWB extensions. An extension is a dynamically loaded module that can access PWB's internal functions. Extensions can do much more than macros. To learn more about writing PWB extensions, see the Microsoft Advisor Help system (choose “PWB Extensions” from the main Help table of contents).