Setting personal preferences

Certain aspects of how the versions program behaves are configurable on a user by user basis. Each user can set defaults which control how the program will initialize, execute, and react in specific circumstances. A panel which lets you control these aspects of the program can be brought up via the Tool Properties option on the Edit menu.




As noted on the panel itself, some settings will take effect immediately, while others require a restart of the program. In the first category, you can control whether or not the versions program will warn the user if a pending operation will affect an existing file on disk. Some people like this extra level of caution; some don't. The user can also set whether or not the directory field on the check-in panel is automatically filled in with the directory that the file was originally checked out to. User's can also hide the display of thread groups and/or issues groups from the Groups pull-down menu.

By default, the versions program will come up showing the first group in the Razor database, as determined by an alphabetical sort. Setting the selector on the above display overrides that behavior.¹

Finally, through the last option on the display, user's can define the directory where files should be normally checked out via a chooser dialog. This minimizes the need to re-enter that information each time the program is invoked.

¹ Only file control groups may be used as startup groups.