Setting Preferences › Set General Preferences

Set General Preferences

The plug-in contains views and editors that control what appears in certain menus and tool bars. The General page lets you specify preferences for the general appearance and behavior of these views and editors.

To set general preferences

1. Click Window, Preferences, General.

   The General page appears.

2. Select the preferences that you want to use for your plug-in sessions:

   Always run in background

   Runs long operations in the background and does not block you from doing other work.

   Keep next/previous editor, view and perspectives dialog open

   Keeps editor, view, and perspective dialogs open when their activation key is released; otherwise, the dialog closes as soon as the key combination is released.

   Show Heap Status

   Displays information about current Java heap usage.

3. Select one of the following methods for opening resources:

   Double click

   Selects a resource and a double-click opens the resource in an editor.

   Single click (Select on hover)

   Selects a resource and a single-click opens the resource in an editor.

   Single click (Open when using arrow keys)

   Uses the arrow keys to select a resource and open it in an editor.

   Note: Depending on which view has focus, selecting and opening a resource may behave differently.

   Click OK.

   Your general preferences are set.