The Options dialog display several tabs such as General, Editor, Debugger, Character Map and Server. + You can configure the environment of Keyman Developer here.
Instead of opening a keyboard file in the Details tab, open directly into the Layout tab, Source pane.
You can open any Keyman source file shown in the project in an external text editor by right-clicking + on the file and selecting "Open in External Editor". The files available for editing externally + are .kmn, .kps, and .kvks. This field configures which editor you wish to use to edit the files. + Note: if you need to pass command line parameters to the editor, you will need to wrap the command + in a batch file and reference the batch file here.
You can check the location of your default project folder, where projects like keyboards or + lexical models will be saved automatically. If needed, you can change the folder location + to a more convenient spot.
Reset all tabs to their original locations.
Configure your SMTP server settings for email functionality within Keyman Developer, + such as emailing debug URLs for the touch layout debugger.
Configure the HTTP proxy settings for online functionality within Keyman Developer, + such as uploading files to Tavultesoft.
Click Cancel to close the dialog without saving changes.
Click OK to save changes and close the dialog.
Sets whether to use the Tab character or spaces for indents.
The indent size, measured in number of spaces.
If checked, the quoted font size will be the same as the default font size.
Sets the font for ordinary text in the editor.
Sets the font for displaying comments text and strings in Keyman source files in + single or double quotes.
Sets the display theme and syntax highlighting options for the editor. A custom + theme can be defined in a JSON file.
Enables the Keyman 5-style Test window instead of the debugger.
Breakpoints will fire when a rule has finished being processed also.
Activates single-step mode after a breakpoint fires.
Displays numeric indices of characters in stores
When the debugger starts, rebuild a keyboard without prompting if the keyboard + has no debug symbols included.
If you are debugging a keyboard, make a change to the keyboard, and recompile it, + then the debugger needs to be reset in order to get access to the new keyboard. + Keyman Developer will normally prompt you to do this, but if you set + this option, then it will reset the debugger automatically instead.
The character beneath the cursor in the edit window will be highlighted in the + Character Map. This will intelligently parse the character data under the cursor so that + a character code (e.g. U+1234) will be highlighted correctly.
Rebuilds the Unicode character database from source unicodedata.txt and blocks.txt. + These files can be downloaded from the Unicode website at http://www.unicode.org/ucd/. + This lets you update the character map with a newer version of Unicode. + Keyman Developer 17.0 was released with Unicode version 15.1 data.
You can customize the Keyman Developer server for testing the usability of your keyboard. + Features of the Keyman Developer server include: +
Below Configure Server, untick the box, and it will quit displaying any local URLs for keyboard testing.
The name of the developer of the keyboard. This is either your full name or