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Application Properties

This dialog box used to change various parameters that are global for whole DM2000 application. Its controls are grouped on three tabs: General properties, View properties and Data Window properties.

General properties:

• Calibration table - display properties of the installed calibration table used by Table() internal function.
• Homepage - define URL or file displayed by Help|Web Homepage command. Default value is http://datamaster2000.tripod.com.
• Special windows - you may prefer to have separate taskbar icon for these windows in floating state (important for low resolution monitors), and sometimes it's convenient to turn off drag-n-dock features.
• Script timeout - set timeout property of the script engine used by Script Window.
• MetaBase provider - select active provider library and configure its properties (if any).
• Experiment monitor - configure connection properties for TCP/IP experiment server applications.

View properties:

• Main window background - you may use background images in the main window.
• Toolbar background - toolbars may have own background. Notice that both images must have BMP format.
• Show toolbars - allows you to control visibility of the separate toolbars on the main toolbar, status line and hints.
• Starting from build #102 DM2000 includes support for "themes", or "skins". "Skin" is a simple text file that describes color, font and background attributes of visual objects. Application properties dialog box allows you to create or select skin file. Note that attributes of the individual controls are not remembered - you may only apply skin file as a whole. Several background bitmaps are included in the samples.zip archive.

Data Window properties:

• General options - control various parameters of data windows.
• Initial view - select initial window state for newly created data windows.
• Template - allows you to use preconfigured template desktop for data window creation.

Use context-sensitive help (F1 key and [?] button) to get more detailed information about controls.

Note that if you check "Save on Exit" flag, DM2000 configuration will be saved in the system registry, including options from this dialog box, main window toolbars, windows layouts and some other options.