You are here: Start » Getting Started » Application Settings
Application Settings
Aurora Vision Studio is a customizable environment and all its settings can be adjusted in the Settings window, located in the Tools » Settings menu. Falling back to defaults is possible with the Reset Environment button located at the bottom of the window. Here is the list of the Application Settings:
- Environment
 - Program Execution
 - Filters
 - File Associations
 - Program Edition
 - Results
 - Project Files
 - Messages
 
1. Environment
General
- Complexity level:
 - Selecting tools level complexity.
 - Language:
 - User interface language.
 - Theme:
 - User interface color theme.
 - Display short project name in the Title Bar
 - If checked, only name of the current project is displayed in the Main Window title. Otherwise, full path to the project file is displayed.
 - Floating point significant digits:
 - Sets the number of digits after floating point separator.
 
Startup
- Load last project on application startup
 - Loads previously opened program at AVStudio startup.
 
Console
- Show date column
 - Adds or removes 'Date' column in the Console.
 - Show time column
 - Adds or removes 'Time' column in the Console.
 - Show message level column
 - Adds or removes 'Level' column in the Console.
 
Previews
- Display region border in image previews
 - Displays region bounding rectangle.
 
2. Program Execution
General
- Break before undefined mandatory inputs
 - If checked, automatically breaks the program when the filter with undefined mandatory inputs is about to be executed.
 - Edit undefined mandatory inputs on break
 - If checked, tries to edit missing input data when program execution breaks before undefined mandatory inputs.
 - Break when an exception occurred
 - Automatically breaks the program when exception occurred.
 - Break when a warning occurred
 - Automatically breaks the program when warning occurred.
 - Break on assertion failed
 - Automatically breaks the program when assertion failed.
 - Diagnostic mode
 - Enables or disables computation of diagnostic output values.
 - Offline mode
 - Enables or disables the offline mode, in which data for filter outputs within the ACQUIRE section is acquired from local storage.
 - Display performance statistics automatically when execution is finished
 - Automatically opens the Statistics window after program execution.
 - Save changes before execution
 - Automatically saves program before execution start.
 - Previews update mode:
 - Sets how program will be visualized in context of previews refreshing.
 
HMI
- Display HMI in Standalone Window
 - Displays HMI in a separate window as if it was run in Aurora Vision Executor.
 
3. Filters
Library
- Auto reload filters
 - Tracks loaded filters directories for changes and reloads filters if any has been detected.
 
Filter Catalog
- Close open groups
 - Allows only one opened group at a time.
 - Merge filters by group
 - Allows AVStudio to combine several filters items into single convenient tool.
 - Search bar enabled
 - Enables searching in the Filter Catalog.
 - Group categories by library
 - Filters in Filters Catalog will be split by library origin.
 
Toolbox
- Show small icons in toolbox
 - Showing small icons in the Toolbox allows to unlock Toolbox window as a small convenient set of tools.
 - Use library view as staring page
 - Showing small icons in the Toolbox allows to unlock Toolbox window as a small convenient set of tools.
 
Filter Properties
- Show context help
 - Shows help for current selected property at the bottom of the Filter Properties window.
 
Project Explorer
- Show macrofilter usage
 - Shows usage count of each macrofilter.
 
4. File Associations
Default Program
- Check .avproj file association on startup
 - Check if current program is the default for opening .avproj Files on startup.
 
5. Program Edition
Macrofilter Navigator
- Expanded tree view
 - Shows parent-child relations between macrofilters. If not checked, macrofilters will be listed without any marked relations.
 - Show macrofilters preview in tooltips
 - Shows the graphical previews of macrofilters as tooltips.
 - Auto hide macrofilter list
 - Hides the expanded list of macrofilters on selection.
 
Program Editor
- Show warning when connecting diagnostic outputs
 - Enables warning on creating diagnostic connections.
 - Smooth variant switch
 - Enables animated variants switch.
 - Show comments
 - Enables filter instances comments.
 - Wrap comments
 - Wraps long comments or, when unchecked, clips comments to single line.
 - Wrap formulas
 - Expands formula blocks to display entire formulas.
 - Tab size
 - Number of spaces the tab is equal to in the inline editors, e.g. formula editor.
 - Block quick commands visibility:
 - Defines the visibility of block quick commands (for adding new inputs and outputs).
 - Editor Zoom [%]:
 - Defines a program editor font and image size.
 - Filter icon size:
 - Defines the size of the filter icon in Program Editor.
 - Use larger snap size for editor points
 - Allows easier dragging of points in editors, useful on touchscreens.
 - Editor view type:
 - Enables choosing the information amount displayed in the program editor.
 - Highlight compatible ports while creating connections
 - Highlights compatible ports when either dragging global parameter or filter port.
 - Tooltip delay [ms]:
 - Defines a delay in milliseconds of the tooltip appearance for hovered program elements.
 - Show indices of filter instances
 - If checked, indices of filter instances will be visible.
 - Show array and conditional markers on filter ports
 - If checked, ports that accepts or introduce array ([]), conditional (?) or optional (*) data will include appropriate information in their names.
 - Add generic filters as uninstantiated
 - If checked, generic filters will be added to program as uninstantiated, without prompting for choosing data type.
 - Autoconnect filters on insertion (experimental)
 - If checked, automatically connects filter image and coordinate system inputs with deduced outputs.
 - Open the default editor when adding the filters to the program
 - If checked, automatically opens the default data editor for inserting filter.
 - Close filter variant selection dialog after filter insertion
 - If checked, filter variant selection dialog will close after inserting one filter. Uncheck to insert multiple filters.
 - Preserve port previews when extracting macrofilter
 - If checked, port previews of filters extracted to new macrofilter will be preserved.
 
Program Analysis
- Check array synchronization problems during program edition
 - If checked, potential array synchronization problems caused by user action are detected and require confirmation.
 - Show array synchronization in Program Editor
 - If checked, array synchronization is presented in Program Edition.
 - Check array synchronization during program loading
 - If checked, array synchronization is verified during program loading.
 - Check array synchronization before program start
 - If checked, array synchronization is verified before program start.
 - Ignore warnings in disabled macrofilters during program execution
 - If checked, warnings in disabled macrofilters will be ignored during program execution.
 
6. Results
View
- Flat view
 - If checked, outputs are arranged in a flat list in the results. Otherwise, outputs are only displayed in a tree layout according to their logical relationship to their parent outputs.
 - Show statistics columns
 - If checked, statistics-related columns are displayed.
 - Use output labels
 - If checked, labeled outputs are presented as their Data Source Labels. Otherwise, original output name is used.
 - Contents
 - Defines the source for the results control contents. Either the selected filters or all filters in the current macrofilter (variant).
 - Show only visible outputs
 - If checked, hidden outputs are also hidden in the results.
 - Show only textual outputs
 - If checked, only outputs of textual data type (e.g. String, Integer, Real, etc.) are shown in the results.
 - Show only checked outputs
 - If checked, only outputs which are checked.
 - Show only labeled outputs
 - If checked, only outputs which have the label defined.
 
7. Project Files
Project Explorer
- Watch for project file changes
 - Notifies, when project file has been changed i.e. by external program.
 
Project Binary Files
- Binary Files Compression Level:
 - Configures project avdata files compression level.
 
8. Messages
Show these messages:
- Warn when trying to modify running program
 - If checked, warning will be displayed before stopping program to make modification in it.
 - Ask about opening an example documentation on startup
 - If checked, application will notify about an example's description in documentation.
 - Warn when trying to replace existing preview
 - When checked, a warning is shown to prevent from accidentally removing carefully prepared preview.
 - Show warning when reconnecting inputs
 - Enables warning on creating a connection which would replace existing connection.
 - Show message after extracting macrofilter
 - If checked, additional help message is shown each time a macrofilter is extracted from selection.
 - Warn about using themes at high resolution and DPI
 - If checked, application will notify about the recommendation not using themes at high resolutions and DPI.
 - Ask for refactoring older project to use sections on loading project
 - Enables warning on creating a connection which would replace existing connection.
 - Show message after Workspace change when executing the program
 - If checked, the application will notify about program stop when the Workspace has changed.
 - Notify when path was automatically changed to relative
 - When checked, a message is shown after selected file path was automatically changed to relative.
 
| Previous: Main Menu and Application Toolbar | Next: Introduction to Data Flow Programming | 
