Settings SettingsThe Settings dialog window, available from the Options menu, allows you to change Spider Writer settings. The Settings dialog has a number of different panes, each of which can be displayed by selected the associated item in the treeview.
Press the OK button to save any changes and the Cancel button to cancel changes.
The General Options section contains several options that apply to all of Spider Writer. The Quick Table section allows you to customize how the Quick Table feature inserts tags. Some of this information is also used in other places within Spider Writer when automatically generating tables.
The Startup Document section contains several options for selecting the type of document to create when Spider Writer starts. If the Use settings for New Document command checkbox is checked, these settings will be used whenever a new document is created. The Startup Folder section tells Spider Writer where to initially browse the folders list in the Local Files sidebar.
The Web Document Extensions section lets you define which file extensions are considered text documents. The File Save Format options allow you to save documents in various operating system formats. The New Document Default Extension textbox tells Spider Writer which file extension to use when creating new documents. The Check for Modified Documents when Spider Writer Receives Focus checkbox indicates that Spider Writer should check for newer versions of any open documents when it receives focus from another application.
AutoBackup backs up your documents at the specified interval, if active. In the event of a system crash, the next time you start Spider Writer, the documents will be reopened from their last backup.
Spider Writer has special integration for Netscape. To use this integration, tell Spider Writer the full path to the Netscape executable.
In the Other External Applications section, you can define up to five different external applications. Each application can be assigned a description which is displayed in menus and tooltips. They also can be passed parameters.
There also is an option to control whether the Design view attempts to preserve source code formatting when editing files. For users who mostly edit documents in Design view, this option should be turned off.
There are a number of different parsers that Spider Writer uses, one for each web language. Whenever a document is opened, Spider Writer examines the list of file extensions for each parser. When a match is found, Spider Writer uses the parser to syntax highlight the document. If no match is found, Spider Writer uses the parser that is marked as default.
To set a default parser, select the parser to become default in the list and press the Set as Default button. To change syntax highlighting styles or modify the file extensions associated with a parser, select the parser in the list and press the Edit button. This button brings up the Parser Definition window. From here you can change all options relating to an individual parser.