System Maintenance Tools

System Options

 

The following links provide information on the configuration and maintenance options listed under the Options menu in the NOMADS Session Manager:

Option

Description

System Defaults

Used for establishing a set of system defaults to be used as the common starting point for future GUI designs.

Message Library Maintenance

Used for setting up message libraries that can be accessed by various different GUI applications.

User Defined Colors

Allows access to a 255-color palette to establish customized colors for reuse throughout your applications.

Group Assignment

Used for defining groups to which Panel Controls can be assigned for the purpose of showing/hiding, disabling/enabling and locking/unlocking them collectively.

Auto Complete

Enables Multi-Line or Grid controls to show suggested text based on partially typed entries, which is useful for handling repetitive data entry.

Themes

Used for defining a set of display properties for all controls based on the control type (i.e. all "Button" types), which can then be applied at different hierarchical levels that cascade to lower levels.

Visual Classes

Used for defining a set of display properties for applying to specific controls on selected panels (i.e. all buttons with text only).

Select Theme

Used for applying an existing Theme at the General level while designing your application in the NOMADS Panel Designer.

Maintain NOMADS Environment

Launches the NOMADS Environment Maintenance utility. This utility provides one central location to display and maintain %NOMADS Properties used by the %NOMADS object (*obj/nomads.pvc) to control the behavior of different aspects of the NOMADS environment.

(The NOMADS Environment Maintenance utility was added in PxPlus 2020.)

Change Directory

Allows you to change your working directory for the current session.