Snippet Layout Preferences

This tab of the Preferences dialogue box is used to customise the layout of pages that display the various kinds of snippet in the Detail Pane.

The tab is accessed by selecting the Tools | Preferences menu item then clicking the Display tab in the Preferences dialogue box.

Overview

Each different kind of snippet has its own page customisation. This makes sense because some page "components" do not make sense for all snippet kinds. For example, freeform snippets can't be compiled, so there's little point in displaying the compiler results table for that kind of snippet.

Page components can be re-ordered, added and removed from a page. The available components are:

Usage

To customise the page layout for a chosen kind of snippet first choose the required snippet kind from the Edit page layout for snippet kind drop-down list.

The current page components will be displayed in the right hand Displayed page components list box. Any unused page components are listed in the Unused page components list box.

You customise the page using this list boxes. Here are the available actions:

Finally, you can reset all page layouts to their defaults by clicking the Restore Defaults button.