7.10 The Project Properties Editor

The project properties editor gives you access at any time to the properties of your project. It is accessible through the menu Project->Edit Project Properties, and through the contextual menu Edit project properties on any project item, e.g. from the Project View or the Project Browser.

If there was an error loading the project (invalid syntax, non-existing directories, ...), a warning dialog is displayed when you select the menu. This reminds you that the project might be only partially loaded, and editing it might result in the loss of data. In such cases, it is recommended that you edit the project file manually, which you can do directly from the pop-up dialog.

Fix the project file as you would for any text file, and then reload it manually (through the Project->Open... or Project->Recent menus.

The project properties editor is divided in three parts:

The attributes editor

The contents of this editor are very similar to that of the project wizard (see The Project Wizard). In fact, all pages but the General page are exactly the same, and you should therefore read the description for these in the project wizard chapter.

See also Working in a Cross Environment for more info on the Cross environment attributes.

The project selector

This area, in the top-right corner of the properties editor, contains a list of all the projects in the hierarchy. The value in the attributes editor is applied to all the selected projects in this selector. You cannot unselect the project for which you activated the contextual menu.

Clicking on the right title bar (Project) of this selector will sort the projects in ascending or descending order.

Clicking on the left title bar (untitled) will select or unselect all the projects.

This selector has two different possible presentations, chosen by the toggle button on top: you can either get a sorted list of all the projects, each one appearing only once. Or you can have the same project hierarchy as displayed in the project view.

The scenario selector

This area, in the bottom-right corner of the properties editor, lists all the scenario variables declared for the project hierarchy. By selecting some or all of their values, you can chose to which scenario the modifications in the attributes editor apply.

Clicking on the left title bar (untitled, on the left of the Scenario label) will select or unselect all values of all variables.

To select all values of a given variable, click on the corresponding check button.