SpyLite User’s Guide
3.3 T
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The Tools menu (Figure 6) contains two groups of functions:
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Format/File Logging Options...—sets text and background colors; sets the font
and font size; sets log file options.
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Set Trace/Clear Trace Options—controls the display and level of trace messages;
clears the trace window
Figure 6: Tools menu.
3.3.1 Format...
Displays a dialog box with two tabs (Figure 7):
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Trace Colors (Figure 7)—displays a list of trace items for which custom text
colors and background colors can be set using the Windows color-picker.
To set the trace colors:
a) Click Tools > Format… and the Trace Colors tab.
b) Double-click an item, e.g., “Error trace,” in the list (Figure 7) to change its
color properties. The background color picker (Figure 9) appears.
c) Choose a background color from the color picker and click OK.
d) A second color picker appears to allow the selection of the text color.
Choose a text color and click OK.
The “Default” button on the Trace Colors tab resets the background and text
colors to their original settings.
NOTE:
The Select Text Color picker appears in exactly the same location on the screen as the
Select Background Color picker. The only way to tell them apart is to read the
menu title bar.
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Set Font (Figure 8)—provides a means to select the font and font size of the text
in the Trace window.
To change the font and font size:
a) Select Tools > Format… and the Set Font tab
b) Choose a font from the drop-down menu. A sample of the font style appears
in the Preview section of the dialog box.
c) Choose a font size from the drop-down menu.
d) Click OK to apply the choices and close the Color and Font Options dialog
box.
The Default button resets the text font style and size in the Trace window to the
default, Courier New, nine points.
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