Carlson Settings Explorer

The Carlson Settings Explorer dialog box allows you to view, manage and report the values for all settings in all commands in all Carlson Software programs.

The tree-view on the left of the window shows the four levels of the command structure of Carlson Software, Program, Menu and Function. Selecting (highlighting) any one or many of these levels will show associated settings. The programs level also includes General, that includes the first six menus available in all Carlson programs.
 
The right-side is a spreadsheet view and is populated depending on the item(s) selected and highlighted in the tree-view. Selecting and placing a checkmark next to an item at one of the upper levels of the tree structure will select that item and all its sub-items.

The spreadsheet view shows the following columns for a command:

Select/Unselect: Using the square tick boxes you can click this toggle to select or unselect a unique item or all items under the hierarchical list. All ticked items will appear in the spreadsheet view to the right.

Select All: Use this button to place a checkmark next to all items and sub-items in the tree-view.

Clear All: Use this button to clear checkmarks from all items and sub-items in the tree-view.

Show Selected Only: Select this option to display, in spreadsheet view, the tree-view settings that have checkmarks on.

Filter: Using a Filter will display the settings containing the text string specified as the Filter. For instance, filtering with the word "elevation", returns the following results:Find: Use this option to search for a string of text. First, enter the text to be found and then pick the button to the right to execute the search.

Show Modified Only: Select this option to display the settings whose current value, as shown in the "Value" column, is different from the default value shown in the "Default" column.

Show Layers Only: Select this option to display the settings whose value in the "Data Type" column is specified as "Layer".

Report: Use this button to prepare a report of all selected settings using Carlson's Report Formatter.

Load: Use this button to Load settings from a Carlson Configuration File (.cfg).

Save: Use this button to Save settings to a Carlson Configuration File (.cfg).

Restore: Use this button to Restore selected settings to their Default value.

Pulldown Menu Location: Settings
Keyboard Command:
setxplore
Prerequisite:
None