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Developer’s Guide


Configuring an Editor Instance

You can change some basic characteristics of the Editor widget’s appearance and behavior through its property sheet, if the default settings do not meet your needs. Note, however, that the more sophisticated behaviors, such as searching, cannot be enabled in the property sheet.

To configure your Editor object, begin by selecting the object and choosing Tools Property Sheet. The dialog box opens:

Minimal Configuration

Although you might choose to accept the other default settings, you should make at least the first of these two changes:

Edit-buffer Size

The default size of an Editor widget’s buffer is 20KB under MS-Windows. You can reduce memory requirements by forcing a smaller buffer size. Enter the desired value in the Maximum Characters field.

Help

Add one or both of these help elements:

Geometry

AppBuilder allows you to adjust the position and size of your widgets interactively, by dragging their handles. The changes you make in this way are reflected in the Geometry values. You can also change these values explicitly, here.

AppBuilder normally generates source code that identifies the upper-left corner of the object as its origin. You can choose to have the upper-right corner identified as the origin instead. This alignment setting does not change the actual position of the object in any way.

Miscellaneous Properties (Other Settings)

You can change as many of these properties as you like:

Advanced Properties

The Editor widget has only the standard Advanced Properties, but you can change those that do not meet your needs. See the "Advanced Properties" section in "Frequently Used Dialogs" for more information.


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