Carlson
Civil uses several techniques to store settings. There
are three main categories of settings; Drawing
Setup settings, such as drawing scale and units, Command-specific
settings,
such as the layer to draw contours on, and Generic control settings,
such as
whether to link drawing points to the external coordinate file (.CRD).
Drawing
Setup settings are stored directly within the drawing files (.DWG). Carlson Civil also creates a file for each
drawing using the drawing name with a (.INI) file extension. This file stores a list of all of the design
files that are used or created from within the drawing, such as
centerline
files (.CL), profile files, (.PRO), etc.
Command-specific
settings are accessed when the commands are actually run.
The settings displayed are being read from
the command’s own specific (.INI) file, and any changes made are
written to the
same files. This way the commands
automatically recall the settings that were used for the previous run.
Alternatively,
the Configure command can be used to access command-specific settings.
The
Configure
command provides access to a dialog box with 12 buttons, each leading
to
settings for specific aspects of the software.
Changes made within any of these are also automatically saved to
the
corresponding command (.INI) file, or to the Carlson.ini file in the
case of
generic settings. The Configure command
also provides a Save and Load functionality, utilizing configuration
files
(.CFG). Saving a configuration file
(.CFG) saves all settings currently stored in all of the
command-specific
(.INI) files, and the Carlson.ini file.
Loading a configuration file (.CFG) sets all settings within all
these
files.