Location
Preference
Description
V5
Require backups
If set, you can define the interval between backups.
V5
Interval Between Backups
Specify the interval in days between backups.
V5
Warn User
Specify whether to warn user or require user to backup the database.
V5
Define new color names and their RGB values. You may use the Color Picker to define colors.
V5
Alias and Path
Create, modify, or delete aliases. Aliases represent system folders and can make your application more portable.
V5
Auto Help
Specify when Auto Complete will occur, whether to Display help for commands, and whether to Color code commands and functions in the Code Editor, Interactive Window, Expression Editor, and Layout Editors.
Specify the Auto Complete Key.
V5
Set the Default Data-Entry Style to Modeless or Modal.
V5
21st Century
Set the upper range of 2 digit year dates that are assumed to be in the 21st century.
V5
Check Require all years to be fully specified if you do not wish to accept 2 digit year dates. This setting affects the CTOD() function.
V5
How to Interpret 2 Component Dates
Indicate whether 2 component dates are to be interpreted as month and year or as month and day.
V5
Shared Path
Set Shared path from its default value to define where the help files and executables for Alpha Five are stored.
V5
Private Path
Clear Use Windows temporary folder if you wish to define where users' query files will be stored.
V5
Default Backup Folder
Change the default location for backup files from the current database folder.
V5
Image File Folder
Change the default location for image files from the current database folder.
V5
Open Database /New Database
Change the default location for any new database that you create and for new files created by an open database.
V5
Profiles
Create, modify, or delete email profiles. Specify whether an email profile uses your default email client or the internal Alpha Five email client.
V5
Account
Specify the following settings for each email profile:
Incoming Mail (POP) URL
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) URL
Your Name
Your Email Address
User Name
Password
V5
Receiving
For the Alpha Five email client, indicate whether you wish to delete mail from the server when you retrieve it. Set the number of messages to retrieve when reading mail. Define the name of the email inbox database. Define where to store email attachments.
V5
Sending
For the Alpha Five email client, define the SMTP Authentication Method and required settings. Define the name of the email outbox database. Select the format of mail that you send.
V5
Advanced
For the Alpha Five email client, define your X-mailer ID, SMTP Port, POP Port, Network Timeout, and Auto-check interval.
System > Feature Codes
V6
Installed Features
Allows you to install or remove optional product add-ons.
V5
Maximum Height for Default Form
Set the maximum height for a Default Form in pixels. If the default form for a table or set exceeds this value, then Alpha Five can optionally reduce the vertical spacing between controls and create a tabbed form, thereby fitting more fields onto the form.
V5
Reduce Vertical Spacing
Check Reduce vertical spacing if you want Alpha Five to be able to use this technique to fit more controls on a Default Form.
V5
Create Tabs
Check Create tabs if you want Alpha Five to be able to use this technique to fit more controls on a Default Form.
V5
Genie Explanation Screens
Indicate whether you wish to display the initial screen of the various operation genies.
V5
Holidays
Add, modify, or delete the list of holidays used by the BUS_DAYS_BETWEEN() and ADD_BUS_DAYS().
V5
Layout Preferences
Clicking the Automatic save Form Layouts check box causes layouts to be automatically saved when switching between Design Mode and View Mode.
V5
Here you can set the measurement style you wish to use in Alpha Five. Choose between: Current Windows Units, Always English (US) Units, and Always Metric Units. You must restart Alpha Five before the changes take effect.
V5
Default Browse Column Width
Set the maximum column width for the Default Browse. The maximum column width is the break point at which Alpha Five wraps field data, creating a new line in the field when data exceeds the max value.
Line breaking increases the row height in the Browse. Long non-breaking lines increase the column width. Adjust the maximum column width value to suit your layout needs.
V5
License
Read the license numbers that you have purchased.
V5
Network Refresh
Sets the intervals at which Alpha Five will refresh shared data. It is recommended that (except in special circumstances) you set this interval to 0 (to disable automatic refresh) and instead let the user press F5 to refresh data as Needed.
V5
Advanced
Indicate whether Alpha Five should check to see if the Control Panel needs to be refreshed during machine idle periods.
V6
Archive Reports Filename
Specifies the format for the date string used in filenames when you archive a layout.
V5
Indicate whether to load the Compiled Script Library (.AEX) file with the same name as the current database.
V5
Autoexec Script
Indicate whether to run the Autoexec script upon startup.
System > Preferences
V7
Select the CSS style sheet to use for calendar popups.
V5
Editing Scripts
Indicate whether to include time-date stamps. Indicate whether to the user name should be a specified name or the user's logged on name.
V6
Indicate whether the cursor should be positioned before or after pasted text.
V5
Find by Key
Indicate whether to show the index name or order expression in the Find by Key dialog box.
Indicate whether to close the Find by Key dialog box after doing a find.
Indicate whether to leave the Browse Key Value and History buttons off the Find by Key dialog box.
System > Preferences
V6
Help Source
Indicates whether to look for help in a local .CHM file or to use webhelp.
V5
Halt Script Dialog
Indicate whether, if Alpha Five determines that a script has been running for a long time, the Halt Script dialog appear.
V6
HTML Editor
Specifies whether the default tab of the HTML Editor will be WYSIWYG or Source.
V7
Image Fields
Specify whether to use the standard Windows dialog to prompt for image filenames. You can also set this property with the following Xbasic.
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dim key as C key = "Preferences\ImageFields" delete P dim ptr as P dim ptr.UseStandardWindowsDialog as C ptr.UseStandardWindowsDialog = "Yes" :registry.save_settings(key,ptr) |
V6
International
Enables the input of accented characters in forms and browses. Always enabled for V7 and above.
System > Preferences
V6
Internet
Indicate whether, on startup, to check Alpha Software for news or updates to Alpha Five.
V5
Specify the menu style.
Select the scheme when the menu style is Modern.
V5
New Functions
Indicate whether the Function Template dialog box should be displayed.
V5
New Scripts
Select the default editor for new scripts.
Prompt the user for the editor selection.
System > Preferences
V5
Old Action Scripts
Indicate whether to convert Action Scripts created in V4 or earlier to Xbasic or to edit them using the old Action Script Editor.
Prompt the user for the editor selection.
V5
Old Menus
Indicate whether to prompt to user whether to save V4 menus in V5 format.
If prompting is disabled, indicate whether to convert V4 menus to V5 format.
V5
Old Toolbars
Indicate whether to prompt to user whether to save V4 toolbars in V5 format.
If prompting is disabled, indicate whether to convert V4 toolbars to V5 format.
V5
Operations
Specify whether Confirmation Dialogs should be shown before running operations.
Specify whether to show a warning when running an operation if the current selection of records is meaningless.
System > Preferences
V7
Recent Database List
Specify how many databases to list in the recent database list in the File menu.
Specify how many databases to list in the recent database list in the Welcome screen.
Check whether databases exist and remove non-existent databases from the lists.
V5
Reports
No records in report message. Use "{Reportname}" as a placeholder for the report's name.
Indicate whether to pre-calculate record counts. Note: Pre-calculating record counts can slow down report generation.
Specify whether to automatically close the Preview Window after printing.
V8
Reports
Indicate whether to display the Use Cached Data dialog when opening a layout that is based on a SQL data source.
V5
Reports
Display a warning when printing a report when the current selection of records is meaningless.
V5
Right Click Menus
Indicate which menu to display when the user asks for the right click menu of a field that has none defined.
V6
Running Scripts
Specifies whether to display the Halt Script dialog if a script has been running for a long time.
System > Preferences
V6
Saving / Emailing Layouts
Default file format for emailing reports
Default file format for saving reports.
V7
Script Editor
Defines the Status Bar format. See Status Bar Editor
V5
Script Errors
Indicate whether to launch the debugger if an error occurs in an Xbasic script.
V5
Startup Form
Set the name of the Startup Form.
System > Preferences
V7
Script editor status bar format
Starts the StatusBar Editor, where you can define the format of the data that appears on the bottom line of the Code Editor.
V5
Startup
Specify whether to display the Welcome Screen when starting Alpha Five.
Specify whether the user can open a database in Debug Mode, preventing the autoexec script from running and the startup form from loading.
Indicate whether to show the First Time Welcome screen when Alpha Five is started.
V5
Time Format
Specify the time stamp format.
V5
Toolbars
Specify the button style.
Select the scheme when the button style is Modern.
V5
User Alerts
Specify the next date on which the user will be reminded to activate Alpha Five, if it has not yet been activated.
Specify how often Alpha Five should check for new updates.
Specify a date when the user should be reminded to check for a new Alpha Five update.
Enable or disable automatic checking for updates.
System > Preferences
V5
Viewing Forms
Indicate, when viewing a form, whether a dotted line selection rectangle should be drawn around the type-in field object that has focus.
Indicate whether to set the background color of the field that has focus to white.
V6
Web Publishing
Specify whether to show the list of files to be published.
V5
Window Bar
Specify whether the Window Bar should be displayed when Alpha Five is started.
V6
XP Themes
Enables XP Theme support if running under Windows XP.
Note: The OnFlyOver
event does not support XP Themes.
V5
.MPX Files
Indicate whether you want Alpha Five to automatically delete all query list files (.mpx files) when existing or closing a database.
V5
Query by Form Genie
Indicate whether the Query by Form Genie should appear when the user selects Query by Form.
V5
Default Style
Select the default style you wish to use for new layouts of any type. You may also select the default font and point size for text on Browse, Label, Letter, and Report layouts.
V5
Vertical and Horizontal Spacing
Set the default Vertical Spacing Between Fields and Horizontal Spacing Between Field and Label.
V5
Group Fields and Titles
Indicate whether you want new fields on layouts to be grouped with their titles.
V5
Field Width
Indicate whether you want new fields on layouts to all be the same width.
System > System Colors
V6
Code Editor
Define the color for any text element defined within the context of the editor.
Interactive Editor
HTML Editor
CSS Editor
Line Numbers
Expression Builder
V5
Form and browse font and point Size
Set the font and point size for various Alpha Five windows and objects that display text.
V5
Query by Form Genie
Technical Support
V8
Startup Logging Level
These are diagnostic tools intended to be used under the direction of the Alpha support staff. These values are stored in the registry.
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alpha Software\Alpha Five 8.0\Technical Support] "Log File Name"="" "Open Database Log Level"=dword:ffffffff "Startup Log Level"=dword:ffffffff |
When there are no registry key values, the default values are:
Log File Name = <executable path>\<executable base name>.log
Startup Log Level = 0 (Off = 0, Minimal = 1, Full = -1)
Open Database Log Level = 0 (Off = 0, Minimal = 1, Full = -1)
Open Database Logging Level
