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Global settings

Menu: Settings / Global Settings


This is where all of the settings for the program itself are configured. Included are language, design, and user level, for example.



View:

Language:  
Selects the language used in MySQL-Front. (This does not apply to database messages.)  
Skin:  
Selects the appearance (icons) of MySQL-Front.  
 
Tabs:  
Selects if the tab bar is always visible or if it will be hided while not 2 or more tabs are opened.  
 
Navigator:  
Shows the System Tools (Hosts, Processes, Stati, Users, Variables). Alternatively this features are implemented in the properties dialog of the server.  


Files:
User data:  
Indicates the folder of the user-defined MySQL data files.  
 
File types: associate:  
.sql:  
Links files with the .sql extension with MySQL-Front in Windows Explorer.  
mysql://  
Links URI (Unified Resource Identifier) starting with "mysql://" with MySQL-Front in the whole Windows system. This allows to open (and execute) SQL files from the local system or from any address in the Internet.  


Data Browser:
Data Font:  
Indicates the font used to display data in data tables.  
NULL values:  
Indicates the background color and a font for NULL values.  
Maximal column width:  
Wide data fields can be limited as specified so that several columns are visible on screen at once.  
Memo data in grid:  
Describes wether the content of text fields is also displayed within the data table.  
Data in grid:  
Describes wether the content of BLOB and Memo fields is also displayed within the data grid. (Only meaningful if text is saved within the BLOB fields. The latter is not intended by MySQL – but is still done by a few users.)  
Background:  
Inside the data grid every second line gets a light gray background. This can be helpfull to read the data inside the grid.  
Current line:  
The background of current line can be highlighted. This makes it easier to see the current line and all values on a wide data grid.  
 
 
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Editor:
SQL Font:  
Indicates the font used by the SQL Editor.  
Line Numbers:  
Shows line numbers.  
Auto. Indent:  
Automatic Indent is enabled.  
Tabulator:  
Allows the usage of the <Tab> key.  
Tab in spaces:  
Each tabulator (from the file of the keyboard) will be translated to spaces.  
Tab Width:  
Numbers of chars for the tabulator.  
Right Edge:  
Shows line on the right to help the user not to use too large lines.  
Code Completition:  
Activates the code completition popup window in the SQL Editor. The time for showing the popup help can be entered in Milliseconds (ms).  
Current line:  
The background of current line can be highlighted. This makes it easier to see the current line on a wide screen.  


SQL Log:
Font:  
Indicates the font used in the SQL log.  
Time:  
Shows the local time when the query has been sent to the database.  
Result:  
Shows the result of the SQL query sent to the database.  
Errors:  
Shows received errors from the database.  
Lines:  
MySQL-Front requires more time and system resources for a large log. It is thus recommended limiting the size of the log.  


Updates:
MySQL-Front is able to check automatically whether a program update is available.  
 

See also:
Sessions