4GL preferences: Editors

In this Preferences page, you can specify text properties of the 4GL source editor and the text form editor (in Lycia Form Designer) including templates, syntax highlighting scheme, case conversion, etc.:

Editor preferences included to 4GL preferences supplement the Editor preferences specified in General preferences.

The page includes two sub-pages - Code Assist and Templates - and two tabs - Appearance and Syntax.

Appearance

In the Appearance tab, you can choose whether tab character will be inserted after you press Tab when typing:

Syntax

In the Syntax tab, you can change the syntax highlighting scheme by setting the new font color, weight, and/or slope for every component of the 4gl source code:

You can see all the changes immediately in the Preview field:

Code Assist

In the Code Assist sub-page, you can change the behavior of the code assist:

• specify whether the Code Assist will automatically insert single proposals:

  

  if yes (= checked), then after pressing Ctrl + Space the Code Assist will insert the necessary - single suitable - variant without your additional confirmation:

  

  if no (= unchecked), then after  pressing Ctrl + Space you have to confirm the insertion in the same way you do then there are many suitable variants:

  

• specify whether keywords and function calls will be converted to the necessary case:

  

  if yes (= checked), then after pressing Ctrl + Space the Code Assist will convert the entered text to the necessary case:

  

  if no (= unchecked), then the entered text will have the case you used for entering:

  

Templates

In the Templates sub-page, select, view the text, and manage the built-in Lycia templates:

In the sub-page, you can perform these actions:

Remove deletes the selected template

Restore Removed restores the deleted template

Convert to Default removes all the changes introduced to the template and recovers its default variant