Keyboard Options (Environment — Options Dialog Box)

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Allows you to customize the keyboard options for your development environment.

Note   Application-specific options do not appear in the Options dialog box until the application is loaded into memory. Therefore, you may not see the same options you saw during your last session. Once you create a project or select a command that uses a particular application, the options appear in the Options dialog box and remain available as long as the application remains in memory. Common options are available all of the time.

CAUTION   Clicking Cancel cancels all of the changes made on the other tabs but not the changes made using the Assign button. When you click the Assign button, your changes are immediately saved.

Options

Keyboard Mapping Scheme

Lists the set of all available keybindings. To load a specific scheme, select it.

Save As

Displays the Save As dialog box, where you can save the modified keyboard mapping scheme with the name and to the location of your choice.

Delete

Deletes the selected keyboard-mapping scheme.

Categories

Lists all of the main menu items in their default order. You can press the first letter of a menu name to go to the first entry of menu names that begin with that letter.

Commands

Lists the default commands associated with the selected Category. You can press the first letter of a command to go to the first entry of command names that begin with that letter.

Assign

Assigns a new key combination and its scope to the selected command. The button is not active until you type a key combination in the Press New Shortcut Key box. Changes are saved to the keyboard-mapping file that appears in the Keyboard Mapping Scheme box.

Note   Changes made using the Assign button are not cancelled if you click the Cancel button.

Remove

Removes the selected key combination.

Reset All

Resets all of your keyboard options to the last saved version.

Press New Shortcut Key

Allows you to press a key combination that will be used for the currently selected command. You must use one or more modifier keys such as CTRL, ALT, or SHIFT. The modifier keys appear in the order in which you press them. For example, pressing CRTL, then SHIFT, and then F2 creates the shortcut key, CTRL+SHIFT+F2. You can use BACKSPACE to delete the whole shortcut key combination at one time.

Note   The following keys cannot be assigned: ALT, SHIFT, or CTRL without a modifier; ESC, PRINT SCRN/SYS RQ, SCROLL LOCK, PAUSE/BREAK, TAB, CAPS LOCK, INSERT, HOME, END, PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN, Windows keys, APP key, any of the ARROW keys, or ENTER; NUM LOCK, DEL, or CLEAR on the Numpad; or CTRL+ALT+DELETE.

Current Keys

Lists the keys currently assigned to the selected command.

Use New Shortcut Key In

Allows you use the new shortcut key globally in the development environment or in a specific editor; Global is the default setting. If you choose a specific editor, the keyboard shortcut remains in effect only while the editor is active. If you choose Global, the shortcut works in any active window in the development environment.

Currently Assigned To

Displays the command to which the key combination is currently assigned. Appears only when you assign a key or key combination that is already assigned.