9. Preferences

9.1. General

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9.1.1. User Interface

  • Animation
    • Enables menu and button hover and click animations
  • Native Scrollbars
    • Enables native scrollbars
  • Native Dialogs
    • Enables native dialog style
  • Show Ribbon Titles
    • Shows ribbon section titles
  • Show Watermark
    • Shows APEX watermark on design canvas
  • Show Design Grid
    • Shows grid layout on design canvas
  • Show Text Badges
    • Shows element text information badges on design canvas
  • Frame Theme
    • Enables frame theme on Windows, title bar and window are merged
  • Validation Warnings
    • Enables popup dialog if a file recieves a validation warning but can still process.

9.1.2. General Defaults

  • Default Design
    • This design is loaded on DX startup
  • First-run Quickplot
    • This quickplot will be created in the viewer when a file is processed for the first time

9.2. Environment

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  • DX_VERBOSE
    • Specifies the path of the DX log file, if set DX will verbosely log to the file specified.
  • DX_MMAP_PATH
    • Location where DX will store temporary memory mapped files.
  • DX_MMAP_SIZE
    • Size of memory mapped files
  • DX_PLUGIN_PATH
    • Alternative path DX will search for plugins.

9.3. Third Party

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Matlab instalation point.

9.4. Plugins and Formats

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Lists the plugins and data formats loaded by DX.

Plugins are split into processing plugins and data format plugins. The plugin and format directories can be user specified.

9.5. Split

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The default split settings used by the auto split element.