OLT Preferences - General settings
Use the Preferences dialog to customize OLT appearance and function.
General
Pane Behavior determines how panes display in OLT:
- Show title bars
If checked, the OLT windows and panes are identified by a title bar.
- Highlight selected pane
If checked, the currently selected pane is identified by highlighting emphasis applied to
its borders.
- Pane History Cache Size
Enter an integer value to increase or decrease the size of the pane history cache.
Appearance
Use these controls to change the look and feel of the OLT user interface:
- Family
This selection list contains a number of user interface styles. You can select a style
look from this list that corresponds to other programming applications already installed
on your system.
- Platform
Select a GUI style from the selection list to have OLT adopt the window control and
ornamentation style of the chosen GUI.
Toolbars
Use these controls to configure OLT toolbar access, appearance, and contents.
- Pane
Control settings in the rest of the window apply to the pane chosen from this selection
list.
- Toolbar Settings
Settings in this group determine how the toolbar appears in the OLT Viewer. Controls are:
- Position
Select a location for the toolbar from the choices presented in this selection list.
- Behavior
Settings in this selection list control toolbar visibility and access for the pane(s)
specified in the Pane control. You can select any one of:
- Hide
Toolbar is hidden at all times.
- Show on pane focus
Toolbar becomes visible and active only when the specified pane is selected.
- Enable on pane focus
Toolbar is always visible, but becomes active only when the specified pane is selected.
- Show
Toolbar is visible and active at all times.
- Appearance
Select any one of the following radio buttons to control the detail level shown for
all toolbar items:
- Pictures
- Text
- Pictures and Text
- Toolbar Contents
This group lets you select which buttons appear on the toolbars. This option is disabled if you select All panes from the
Panes drop-down list. Controls are:
- Available actions
Displays a list of all available actions for a pane. Select an action in
this panel to
add or insert it on a pane's toolbar
- Current actions
Displays a list of all actions currently available through a pane's
toolbar. Select an action in this panel if you want to remove it from a
toolbar or if you want to insert a new action above it. Actions listed
top to bottom in this panel correspond to the buttons appearing left to
right on a pane's toolbar.
- Add
Adds the action selected in the Available actions panel
to the bottom of the list in the Current action panel.
- Insert
Inserts the action selected in the Available actions
panel above the action selected in the Current action
panel.
- Remove
Removes the selected action from the Current action
panel.
Help
Defines browser options and location used by the OLT help system. Controls in this group
are:
- Help Browser
Select a browser preference from the choices provided in this selection list.
- Browser Location
Enter the directory path location where the browser program selected in the Help
Browser control can be found.