Guides/Qt IDE/Configure/Base

The Base page specifies:

• Formatting options
• Configuration for the J interpreter
• Paths to external programs such as browsers

Each configurable option is given in the form of a J public assignment.

Name of Option	Description of value	Default
BoxPos	Default centering for boxed display, set using 9!:17	0 0
DisplayForm	Representation(s) used for non-nouns, set using 9!:3	5
Format	Instructions for Script|Format [CTRL+SHIFT+P], as 5 numbers: * atom 0: 1 to enable formatting, 0 to disable (it's a good idea to disable if you want to handle your formatting by hand, to make sure you don't format a script by accident) * atom 1: tab-stop width if TABs are to be converted to spaces; or 0 for leave TAB characters * atom 2: 1 to remove multiple spaces in code * atom 3: 1 to indent explicit definitions * atom 4: 1 to indent select. blocks	1 2 1 0 0
MemoryLimit	Maximum size of a single memory allocation, set by 9!:21	_
Output	Instructions for displaying and truncating output, set by 9!:37	0 256 0 222
ReadCatalog	Catalog startup option for Package Manager: 0 to use most recent local copy, 1 to read from the server, 2 to prompt	1
RecentMax	Number of recent files to show in the File|Recent list	15
RGBSEQ	Interpretation of color values: 0 for ABGR (i. e. least-significant byte is red), 1 for ARGB (i. e. least-significant byte is blue)	0 for Android, 1 for others
BoxForm	Format of borders of boxed values: 0 to use special line-drawing characters, 1 to use ASCII. An appropriate set of characters is passed into 9!:7.	1 for Windows, 0 for others
Browser, Browser_nox, Editor, Editor_nox, EPSReader, ImageViewer, ImageViewer_nox, PDFReader, PDFReader_nox, XDiff	Programs to use	depends on operating system
DirTreeX	Exclusion list for the directory tree utility, dirtree	'release'