Preferences - Editor Layout

This page is used to control various Editor Layout options.

General Comments

The positions of the palette and property panes may be configured via drag and drop. The palette may be docked to either the left or right side of the design area.

The property pane may be docked to the top, bottom, left or right of the design view.

The palette and property panes are also available as standalone views.

Editor Layout

This preference controls the position of the source pane relative to the design pane. By default, they are "on separate notebook tabs" labeled Source and Design (you can select which page is first). Additional options are provided to show the source pane and design pane side by side or one above the other.

Sync Delay (ms)

When the source pane and design pane are both visible, this preference determines the delay used to synchronize the two panes. If the user types in the source pane, the source will be re-parsed and the design pane will be updated after a period specified by the sync delay.

Associate Designer editor with automatically recognized Java GUI files

This preference determines whether Designer will attempt to automatically recognize GUI files and associate the Designer editor with them.

Use separate pages for properties and events

This preference determines whether the property pane splits all of the widget events out onto a separate page. If this option is turned off, the events will be merged into a single property list.

Keep events expanded

This preference determines whether the events listed in the separate events page are always shown expanded.

Show thumbnail in Outline view

This preference determines whether a thumbnail view of the layout is show in the Eclipse Outline view.

Open Palette on mouse enter (mouse hover if unchecked)

This preference determines whether a collapsed flyout palette will open as soon as the mouse passes over it.

Open Property Editor on mouse enter (mouse hover if unchecked)

This preference determines whether a collapsed flyout property editor will open as soon as the mouse passes over it.

Show "Test" action on toolbar

This preference determines whether the Test/Preview button should appear on the Designer Editor toolbar.

Maximize editor on "Design" page activation

This preference determines whether the Designer editor will be automatically maximized when switching to the Design view.

Format source code (and reparse) on editor save

This preference determines whether the generated source code will be formatted using your Eclipse code formatting preferences whenever the Designer editor is saved.