CONFIGURATION SETTINGS POPUP GUI

Matching CSET Report

FileName/Directory Item

If the CSET is a placeholder for a file or directory, it will be displayed with the CSET NAME, an entry containing the filename or directory, a Browse... button to allow the user to use the operating system to choose the file/directory location and if its a filename, there may also be an edit button which will allow the user to open that file in the configured Text Editor

Enable/Disable Items

If the CSET is a boolean type operator (on/off), it will be displayed with a Label and a check button

MultiSelect

If the CSET can be used to select one of multiple items, it will be displayed with a Label and an Entry with a Pulldown allowing the user to select from the available options

Search For Config Settings

Each CadEnhance tool provides a powerful search function to let users find a CSET by name, value or category. From there they can inspect and/or modify its current value, and also see the source of it's current value.

Accessing the CSET Search Tool

The Main UI provides a Search for Config Setting Button which pops up the Search Controls. The same search can also be accessed using the Config->Search for Configuration Settings Menu item.

CSET Search Operation

Main Search Entry (Search for setting containing…)

Multiple match Strings can be entered separated by commas in the main Search Entry

In the example shown below, the user entered power,sig_name in the Search for setting containing... entry and then pressed the Search Button (or hit enter)

The Tool searched all of its CSETS to see if their NAME contains either "power" or "sig_name" and then listed the matching CSETS below the search control entries.

Modifying Search Critera

With Prefixes Like #,TAB=,Source=,VAL= and !Default the user can change the search criteria used for each individual match string. 

#Category/Tag

Each CSET in the tool is assigned a list of Categories or Tags that they apply to. The user can use these Tags to search for all the CSETS that are used to control specific functions for the tool. Originally the Tags were referred to as TABS because the CSETs in the View/Set All Configuration Settings were split into a TAB for each function like shown in the NetBom UI image above

The User may enter a TAG Match using the #[matchString] or TAB=[matchString], the tool will search for all CSETs whose category/tag matches the matchString

VAL=PREFIX

With the VAL=MatchString, the tool will search for any CSET whose VALUE contains the matchString.

SOURCE=PREFIX 

With the SOURCE=[SITE|LOCAL] the tool will search for any CSET whose VALUE was contained in the SITE or LOCAL Configuration File

!DEFAULT

If the user enters !DEFAULT as a pattern, the tool will search for any CSET whose VALUE is not equal to the internally stored DEFAULT value. This provides a good way to look for all values that have been changed by the user.

The latest Category/Tag Pulldown provides the user a shortcut to browse and select any of the available CSET Tags.

Mix and Match Search Types

Each of the multiple search_strings can be entered with a different prefix…For example

#Admin,Val=158,LIMIT

The result will display all the CSETS assigned to the ADMIN category, and CSET whose VALUE contains '158' and any CSET whose NAME contains 'LIMIT'

Configuration Settings HTML Report

With each release of the CadEnhance Tools, there is a good chance that a new set of Configuration Settings (CSETS) have been added or removed. Rather than maintain the documentation of these CSETS in this central document site, we added a function so that each Tool can creates the documentation for its latest CSET information on the fly. The tool will always have the best view of its own CSETS.

CSET Documentation Report

When the user selects the Report Configuration Settings item from the Config Menu or the Help Menu, The tool will create an html report of all the know Configuration Settings, and then open a web-browser to display the report.

The Report All Config Settings Button in the CONFIGURATION SETTINGS GUI will also produce the same report.

A sample report from PartBuilder v23.6.1 is shown here

Tool Version and TimeStamp

The Tool Version and Build TimeStamp will be displayed as the top Header

Filter Elements

The Filter Function provides a powerful way to search through all the CSETS.

Column Select

The first Entry provides a Browse Function allowing the user to select the search column which can be set to:

1. Any Column (Searches for the entered string in all columns

2. CSET (The Name of the CSET)

3. Source (Where the selected CSET Value )

4. Value

5. Description

6. More Info

Search Type

The user can set this entry to search for the selected column(s) Containing, or Not Containing the set of match_strings

Pattern Entry

Here the user enters the comma separated Match Strings

CSET Report Rows

A Table

There is a row present for each CSET that matches the CSET filter. For each CSET there is a column for the Source of the CSET Value, the Name of the CSET, the Value of the CSET, the Description of its function (which is stored in the code) and a column with More Information, which includes the default value for the CSET and the File Name that the setting came from if is a SITE or LOCAL value.

The Name, Value and Description are self-explanatory.

The Source of the Value will be displayed as one of three options. 

1. SITE 

   1. This means that the Value came from the SITE settings Configuration File which is documented at the top of the report

2. LOCAL

   1. This means the Value came from the LOCAL Configuration File which is documented at the top of the report

3. DEFAULT

   1. This means that the Value is equal to the default value of the CSET which is internally maintained by the tool

4. ENV_VAR

   1. This value was pulled from a system or user Environment Variable, The Value of these CSETS may be temporarily changed locally, but there is no mechanism to save the changes to the actual Environment Variable.

Sorting by Column

The Rows in the table can be sorted by any of the Column Values, the user can double click in the selected Header column to sort. A Vertical Arrow pointing up or down appears in the column selected for the sort

Expanding large cells

Browser Shortcut Keys

It can be helpful to know that most browsers support a

• Ctrl <shift> '+'  shortcut to zoom in to a page

• Ctrl '-' shortcut key to zoom out.

The table above was captured after using the zoom-out shortcut a few times.