Customizing the workspace
VisualAge for Java gives you a range of characteristics that you can change to
customize the IDE to suit your own needs and tastes. This section shows you how to set
customization options and gives you a brief overview of the items that you can customize.
In VisualAge for Java, you customize the workspace by setting options in the Options
dialog. Let's examine how this window works by setting the option that determines what
happens when you double click on a program element.
By default, double-clicking on a program element icon opens the program element in a
browser of its own. For example, when you double-click on a package icon, a package
browser opens, showing all the types contained in the package. You can change this
behavior so that double-clicking on a program element icon expands or collapses the
program element tree beneath that icon.
To specify that double-clicking on a program element expands the tree view beneath the
program element:
- Select Options from the Window menu. The Options
dialog appears.

- Select the General page, if it is not already selected.
- Under Action on double-clicking an item in a tree view, enable the Expand
radio button.
- Click OK.
Now, when you double-click on a program element icon, the tree view expands to show the
program elements contained by the clicked-on element.
To set all of the options on a page back to their default values, select Defaults
and then select OK.
The tree view on the left-hand side of the Options dialog can be expanded to show all
available pages. Note: Each parent item in the tree (for example Coding)
also has a page.
The following pages are available in the Options dialog:
- The General page displays options for some miscellaneous IDE behaviors.
The Cache page displays options for memory management.
- The Appearance pages display options for how lists, source code,
dialogs, banners, and printer output appear, including color, size, and font.
- The Coding page displays options for tabbing and saving code.
- The Compiler page displays options for reporting compiler errors.
- The Debugging page displays options for the integrated debugger and for
generating a stack trace.
- The Formatter page displays options for the automatic code formatter,
which standardizes how code is shown in Source panes.
- The Indentation page displays options for how each new line of code is
indented.
- The Method Javadoc and Type Javadoc pages display
options for generating standard Javadoc comments for each new method and type.
- The Help page displays options for specifying which web browser is used
to display the help information.
- The Tips and Warning pages displays options for
specifying which help tips and warnings you want to see.
- The Resources page lets you set the class path so that programs running
in the workspace can find the resource files and classes that they need.
- The RMI Registry page displays options for remote method invocation
(RMI).
- The Design Time page displays options for BeanInfo support and the
Visual Composition Editor.
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