The Preferences Panel
General
These options affect the behavior of Pref Setter.- Documents use tabs
- This turns on or off using tabbed documents. Note that it doesn’t affect opened windows, only windows opened after this setting has been changed.
- Always show tab bar
- This turns on or off tabs always being shown, even if there is only a single document open. Only available when the above option is turned on.
- Keep Open Domain Quickly window visible when inactive
- This will keep the “Open Domain Quickly” window visible even when Pref Setter is in the background.
- Show Icons in Open Domain Quickly window
- This will turn on or off the icon previews in the “Open Domain Quickly” window.
- Warn when trying to edit a running application's preferences.
- When selected, will display an alert dialog when you open a preference whose application is running.
- Warn before deleting in documents
- When selected, will display an alert dialog before deleting the selected item(s).
- Warn before deleting in Open Domain Quickly window
- When selected, will display an alert dialog before deleting the selected domain(s).
- Warn before replacing duplicate entries
- When selected, will display an alert dialog asking if you’d like to replace an item with one you've pasted or dragged. There’s a portion showing you what the old value and new value is.
- Authorization Times Out:
- Never: Authorization never times out
- After 5 Minutes (default): Authorization times out after 5 minutes
- After 10 Minutes: Authorization times out after 10 minutes
- After 30 Minutes: Authorization times out after 30 minutes
- After 1 Hour: Authorization times out after 1 hour
You will be asked for an administrator password before being allowed to change this value.
- Lock On Quit
- Causes the authorization to lock when Pref Setter is quit, irrespective of the above setting.
The above two options are only enabled if you have authorized Pref Setter
Fonts and Colors
These options let you customize the colors and fonts used.- Documents use alternating row colors
- Controls whether or not documents use alternating row colors
- Documents use custom colors
- Controls whether or not custom colors are used in document windows.
- Document colors pop up menu:
- Light Background Color: sets the light row color, or the entire background color if alternating row colors is off.
- Dark Background Color: sets the dark row color (disabled if alternating row colors is off).
- Text Color: sets the color of text.
- Disabled Color: sets the color of disabled text, and text used to show the count of items in arrays or dictionaries.
- Reset: resets the document colors to the standard colors.
- Show Grid
- Controls whether or not the grid is shown in documents
- Reset: resets the grid color to the standard color.
- Tabs use custom colors
- Controls whether or not tabs use custom colors.
- Tab colors pop up menu:
- Tab Bar Background Color: sets the background color of the entire tab bar.
- Tab Background Color: sets the background color of the selected tab.
- Tab Text Color: sets the text color of the selected tab.
- Tab Disabled Text Color: sets the text color used when the document is in the background.
- Tab Overflow Color: sets the color used to show the arrows when there are more tabs than can fit in the tab bar.
- Reset: resets the tab colors to the standard colors.
- Fonts pop up menu:
- Document Font: sets the font used in preference documents
- Tab Font: sets the font used by the tabs.
- Open Domain Quickly Font: sets the font used by the “Open Domain Quickly” window.
- Hex View Font: sets the font used by the hex editor.
- Bold Arrays & Dictionaries
- Sets whether or not arrays and dictionaries are shown in a bold font in preference documents (where the document font allows it).