Adept DeskTop 4.3 - Manual (Page 27)

Adept DeskTop 4.3 - Online Help 13
Setting Controls Options
Use options in the tab to set the colors, fonts and other appearance properties of the Program Editor
and the Monitor Terminal. The Sample display shows the effect of the selected settings.
Font
Opens a Font properties form in which you can select font type, color, and size.
Display items
This lists allows you to select an item and view or select the color that is used to display the item in the
Program Editor or the Monitor Terminal.
Color
Click this button to select and change the color that will be used to display a selected item in the
Program Editor or the Monitor Terminal.
Syntax Highlighting
Syntax highlighting is a feature of the Program Editor that assign different colors to V+ and MicroV+
code, according to the category of elements in a program. This enables you to easily identify elements
in a program and helps debug and identify syntax errors. By default, syntax highlighting is enabled.
To modify syntax highlighting colors:
1. Select a category in the Display items list.
2. Click the Color button.
3. Select or create a color in the Color picker dialog, then click OK.
Legacy keyboard shortcuts
Enabling this check box applies the legacy shortcut keys used with the Adept Windows SEE editor. By
default Adept DeskTop 4.3 applies standard Windows shortcut keys. Long-time users of Adept DeskTop
may prefer to use the legacy shortcuts. To do so enable this check box.
Table 1: and Table 2: illustrate some standard keyboard shortcuts and legacy keyboard shortcuts.
Table 1: Example of standard Window (R) keyboard shortcuts used by Adept DeskTop
Keys Action
Ctrl+A Select All
Ctrl+C Copy
Ctrl+F Find
Ctrl+V
Paste
Ctrl+X Cut
Ctrl+Z Undo
F1
Display contextual Help window
F5 Execute (run) a program
LEFT ARROW Left one unit
RIGHT ARROW Right one unit
UP ARROW Up one unit or line