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winIDEA Help

Version: 9.26.20

Options Dialog Reference

This section describes the pages of the Tools > Options dialog, where you set winIDEA preferences for the IDE, the editor, and individual windows. Most window-specific pages can also be opened by right-clicking in that window and selecting Options.

 

Use it to:

•Environment - Set how workspaces and documents are loaded, saved, and backed up, and set general IDE behavior such as online help and the user templates location.

•Advanced - Set UI warnings, compatible commands, and the menu structure.

•Disassembly - Select what the Disassembly window shows (symbols, labels, source lines), how the indicator is displayed, and how memory is accessed.

•SFR Window - Set how SFR names, values, radix prefixes, and sub-registers are displayed.

•Callstack Window - Set whether source lines are shown, how many lines around the PC are displayed, and how source file paths are shown.

•Terminal - Select the communication channel (debugger or COM port) and terminal emulation, send ASCII files, override shortcuts, and save received data to a file.

•winIDEA SDK - Set the TCP service port and UDP discovery port that winIDEA SDK clients, such as Python scripts, use to connect to winIDEA.

•Script - Select the Python distribution that winIDEA uses and define shortcut scripts.

•SFRs - Set the SFR database location, recreate the default database, or use a custom database.

•Colors and Fonts - Select the IDE theme, editor color scheme, UI properties, and fonts.

•General (Editor) - Set editor fonts, watch tip delay, large file limit, selection margin action, line numbers, bracket auto-close, code folding, and read-only mode.

•Whitespace (Editor) - Set tabs or spaces for indentation, how whitespace is displayed, indentation guides, virtual spaces, and the line indicator.

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