Setting Environment Options

Find and Replace Settings

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Import and Export Settings

Shortcut Keyboard Combinations

Startup

Tabs and Windows

Visual experience

, indicates the color theme to use in the development environment and specifies whether the visual experience is set automatically or explicitly. For the color theme, the possible colors are blue and light. For the visual experience, the adjustment may change the display of colors from gradients to flat colors, or it may restrict the use of animations in menus or popup windows. Enabling the full visual experience includes gradients and animations. Clear this option when using remote desktop connections or older graphics adapters because these features may have poor performance in such cases. Use hardware graphics acceleration if available rather than software acceleration.

Window menu

, indicates the number of windows (ranging from 1 to 24) that display in the Windows list of the

Window

menu. For the number of items shown in the

Window

menu, the default value is 10.

Recently used

, indicates the number of recently used files displayed in menus. The items shown in recently used lists field defines the number of recent projects and files (ranging from 1 to 24) that display in the

File

menu. For the number of items shown in recently used lists, the default value is 4.

Show status bar

, displays the status bar showing progress information for ongoing operations.

Close button affects active tool window only

, enables the Close button to shut down the active window only. This option is selected by default.

Auto Hide button affects active tool window only

, enables

Auto Hide

to hide the active window only.