Set General Preferences

You can customize the general preferences that affect the behavior of the product.

Follow these steps:

  1. Select Window, Preferences.
    The Preferences dialog opens.

  2. Select General.
    The General Options page displays.

  3. Select appropriate settings to customize, or select Restore Defaults to restore the main window to its default values. The following settings may be modified:

    • Keep next/previous editor, view and perspectives dialog open
      Lets you access the pages on a dialog that you have previously seen for an active project. Click the Previous or Next arrow button to see the previous or next page respectively.

      Note: When you close the dialog and reopen it, the previously stored page order will not be available.

      Default: Off

    • Open mode
      Specifies the default behavior for opening views. You can select one of the following methods for opening these resources:

      • Double click
        Specifies a single-click to select a resource and a double-click to open that resource.

      • Single click (Select on hover)
        Specifies hovering the mouse over a resource to select it and single-clicking on the resource to open it.

      • Single click (Open when using arrow keys)
        Specifies using the arrow keys to select a resource and automatically opening it.

      Default: Double click

      Note: The effect of these selections may vary depending on the view that has the focus.

    • Table rows on one page
      If there are more table rows they will be shown on additional pages.
      Default: 20

  4. Click Apply to save the settings.
    Any modifications made in this dialog are applied.

  5. Click OK.

Note: CA Mainframe Application Tuner does not support Always run in background and Show Heap Status fields in this dialog.