The General section of the Options window allows you to customize settings for several features of MZ-Tools:
The settings that you can customize are the following:
- User Name: you can use the default Windows username (as returned by the GetUserName Win32 function) or a custom user name.
- Date Format: by default, MZ-Tools uses the short format for dates set in the Regional Settings when replacing the Current Date variable by its value in headers or code templates. If you want to set a specific format (such as yyyy-mm-dd) then you can use this setting. This is useful when the members of a development team are in different countries and use different Regional Settings.
- Review before making the executable (not available in the VBA version of MZ-Tools): MZ-Tools can review automatically (or you can be asked) the collections, the TabIndex property, the dead code and the access keys before making the executable (clicking some of the File | Make ... menus).
- Language: the language of the user interface of MZ-Tools. You can select the language of the Regional Settings (English if there is no match) or specifically one of the following: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese.
- Remove debug files (.lib and .exp) when closing a project (not available in the VBA version of MZ-Tools): MZ-Tools can remove automatically (or you can be asked) when closing the project the .lib and .exp files generated when making a component and that you usually will not use. See Remove Files (.lib and .exp) When Closing Project.
- Max. number of characters per line when splitting lines: this setting limits the line length when splitting lines with the Split / Combine Lines feature.
- Open XML documentation file after creation: this setting allows you to open the XML documentation file after it is created. See XML Documentation.
- XSLT template for XML documentation (optional): this setting allows you to include a XSLT template inside the XML documentation file to format the XML file when viewing it in Microsoft Internet Explorer, but it is not mandatory. See XML Documentation.
- Allow multiple selection when adding files to a project (not available in the VBA version of MZ-Tools): if this setting is checked, you will be able to select multiple files in the Add File dialog when adding a file to a project. See Add Multiple Files To Project.
- Procedure header below declaration: if this setting is checked, the Add Procedure Header will add headers below the declaration instead of above it.
- Use unique line numbers when adding line numbers to a whole project: if this setting is checked, the line counter is not reset in each procedure when numbering a whole project. Visual Basic does not allow line numbers greater than 65535 (they are treated as 0), so MZ-Tools stops the numeration when it reaches that limit. Take this into account if you check this setting. See Line Numbering.
- Increment: the increment used numbering lines.
- Keep open the active window when closing windows (only with IDE in MDI mode): if this setting is checked, when you use the Close Windows feature the active window will remain open if the IDE is in MDI mode (due to a Visual Basic limitation). Otherwise all windows are closed.
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