Customizing CodeSmith Studio

There are several ways that you can customize CodeSmith Studio:

• You can customize the behavior and placement of the various tool windows using mouse operations or the commands on the Window menu.
• You can customize the color choices in the editor by selecting the Highlighting Style Editor command on the Tools menu.
• You can change many editor settings by selecting the Options command on the Tools menu:

The Options dialog box allows you to change the following settings:

• Font: Select the font to use in all editor windows.
• Size: Select the font size to use in all editor windows.
• Enable Unicode Support: Check this checkbox to enable the display of Unicode characters.
• Show Line Numbers: Check this checkbox to display line numbers to the left of each line of code.
• Convert Tabs to Spaces: Check this checkbox to convert each tab to spaces automatically.
• Tab Size: Select the number of spaces to be used for each tab on screen.
• Bracket Matching: Check this checkbox to enable the bracket highlighting feature.
• Outlining: Check this checkbox to enable the outlining features.
• Indentation Guides: Check this checkbox to display light vertical lines each time you indent code
• Highlight Target Language: Check this checkbox to ????
• Outline Target Language: Check this checkbox to ????
• Line Modification Markers: Check this checkbox to enable line modification markers.
• Auto Collapse Regions: Check this checkbox to ????
• Enable Output Editing: Check this checkbox to allow editing the contents of the Output tab.
• Highlight Current Line: Check this checkbox to show a highlight behind the line where the cursor is currently located.
• Auto Save on Compile: Check this checkbox to save the template each time it is compiled.
• Close Start Page on File Open: Check this checkbox to close the Start Page as soon as you open any file.
• Show Start Page at Startup: Check this checkbox to show the Start Page when you launch CodeSmith Studio.
• Code Behind Option: Select an option for the treatment of code-behind pages associated with templates.
• Auto Copy Output to Clipboard: Check this checkbox to copy the contents of the Output tab to the Windows clipboard whenever you run a template.
• Display Semantic Information: Check this checkbox to display semantic information about the current cursor location in the status bar.
• Enable IntelliPrompt: Check this checkbox to turn on Statement Completion.
• Enable IntelliPrompt Summaries (slow): Check this checkbox to have CodeSmith parse the XML comment summaries for methods and properties and display them in tooltips with statement completion.
• Enable Compiled Source: Check this checkbox to always show the compiled source tab of a template document.
• Check File Associations: Check this checkbox to have CodeSmith Studio ensure that it is the registered handler for its file types at startup.
• Display Splash Screen On Startup: Check this checkbox to display the splash screen when you launch CodeSmith Studio.
• Reset File Associations: Click this button to make CodeSmith Studio the registered handler for its file types.
• Restore Defaults: Click this button to restore the default settings in the Options dialog box.
• Reset Docking Layout: Click this button to restore all of the tool windows to their original position, docking, and autohide status.