Environment

The Environment command displays a dialog box that controls editor settings in the Graphical Development Environment. Use the following options to control tab setting, file saving, and language displays.

Tab Settings

Tab Stops

Sets the number of spaces for the tab stop. The default is 4.

Keep Tabs

If selected, the tab characters are preserved when you save the file.

Insert Spaces

If selected, tab characters are converted into the number of spaces specified in Tab Stops.

Scroll Bars

Vertical

If selected, displays the vertical scroll bar if the window cannot display all of the information at once.

Horizontal

If selected, displays the horizontal scroll bar.

Source Files

Save Before Build

Causes the development environment to save a modified source file before building the program. This procedure preserves all changes to source files.

Prompt Before Saving Files

Causes the development environment to prompt you before saving the files as described above.

Miscellaneous

Undo Buffer Size

Affects the amount of space the environment allocates to the Undo command. Entering a zero disables Undo. Maximum size of the Undo buffer is 64K.

Progress Indicator Step Size

Sets the interval in which the progress indicator updates the compiler status. Entering a zero disables periodic updates.

See Also

Opening and Closing Source Files, page 10; Setting Tabs, page 16