Chapter 25. Settings dialog window

This dialog window is called by the command Settings. You can set all the GROMA program's parameters in it (environment parameters, input/output formats, tolerances, etc.)

Environment

Under this bookmark, different parameters for the work in the program can be set. The data is organized in logical groups.

Coordinates order:

You can choose the order in which the X and Y coordinates shall be displayed and entered on the lists and in the dialog windows. This selection doesn’t effect the storing of the coordinate lists in text files; there the order determined is by the applied format prescription.

Important

The change in the coordinates order setting will show after the program's termination and its re-launching.

Sorting:

You can choose how the items on the coordinate list shall be sorted.

  • Do not sort

    In this case, the points on the coordinate lists are not sorted; they are listed in the order they have been added to the file. This order will be changed, for example, during file compression, if a different type of sorting is set during the compression (during the compression, a new file is created wherein all the points are written in the order they are in at the moment of the compression).

  • Prefix

    The points on the list are sorted primarily according to the prefix and secondarily according to the point number. Therefore, in the file, the points with the same prefix and different point number are queued. This is the most common sorting.

  • Number

    The points are sorted primarily according to the point number and secondarily according to the prefix. Therefore, in the file the points with the same point number and different prefix are queued.

Text editor:

Here you can set whether the program shall use an internal or an external editor. For external an editor, you can choose the command for launching (along with the entire path if necessary). If you turn on the external editor, the program displays the window with the report only as an icon, but with any attempt to enlarge (refresh) the window, the external editor is automatically launched. If the report size in Windows 95 overreaches the limit for editing in the internal editor (approx. 30 KB), the GROMA system automatically switches to the external editor. This limit doesn’t apply for Windows NT.

Lists:

  • Selecting items on the lists according to Windows

    If this option is turned on, the GROMA system works, when selecting the items on the list, in the same way as any other list in Windows (if you mouse-point to a list, the items selection is cancelled). If this option is turned off, the selecting works as in previous versions.

  • Fast mouse-locking/unlocking

    If this option is turned on, you can lock/unlock the individual points by mouse-clicking on the left edge of the list (in front of the point number).

Point search

  • Search according to prefix

    In this option the points are searched according to the number and prefix; the point has to have both number and prefix identical to be found. If this option is not checked, all the points of the entered number will be found, regardless of the prefix.

    This setting can have, especially in case of large coordinate lists, a significant influence on the search speed. Generally, searching according to both number and prefix is faster than just searching according to the number.

  • Search in all open files

    If this option is turned on, the program searches the points not only in the active list, but in all the open lists. If more points meeting the criteria are found, the program displays their list in the dialog window, and allows you to choose from them.

  • Audio signal when not found

    If the point was not found, the program will notify you with an audio signal.

Other options:

  • Automatically open check drawing

    If this option is turned on, the window with the check drawing will be opened automatically after the first calculation or other job which displays the check drawing.

Template files

If you want the newly created files to have certain specific features (set certain coordinate and height system, defined the used columns), you can create an empty coordinate list or measured data list, set all the features, and define it as the template file. All the newly created lists will overtake the settings.

  • File selection (...)

    After pressing this button, you can choose the file which shall be used as the template.

  • Open

    After pressing this button the template file will be opened for easy adjustment.

  • Disconnect

    This command terminates the use of the template file.

Font for lists

By pressing this button the font in which the coordinate lists and measured data lists are displayed on the screen can be set.

International:

By pressing this button a dialog window with the list of the available language modules is displayed. The standard distribution version contains only the Czech module in coding 1250 Windows Latin-2.