Edit - Preferences
Selecting Edit - Preferences from the main menu of the session tab opens the Edit Preferences dialog box, which allows you to set your preferences and define hot keys for the software. There are four pages in the dialog box: General, Keyboard, and Hints.
Load last session when Sonnet starts: Select this checkbox if you wish the last session, which is automatically saved when you exit the software, to be opened when you next invoke the software. Any tabs that were open are opened in the new session. If this checkbox is not selected, when a new session is started, only the session tab is displayed with no projects open. The default setting is to open the last setting.
Open new tabs in separate window: Select this checkbox is you want new tabs to be opened in a separate window instead of in the present one. There is only one Sonnet session open at a time but you may have multiple windows open in a session. If this checkbox is not selected, than new tabs are opened in the present window. The default setting is to open new tabs in the present window.
The Keyboard page of the Edit Preferences dialog box allows you to define keyboard commands for the session tab. The Categories column lists the various menus in the session tab. When you select a category, the Commands section is updated with the contents of that menu. To define a short cut key for a command, you enter the desired key sequence in the Key text entry box for that command. When a command is selected, a brief description is displayed below. If the key combination you enter is already in use by the software, you will receive a warning before the change is applied. You may choose to go ahead with the assignment by clicking on the Remove and Reassign button, or click on the Do Nothing button and no changes are made.
Each type of tab has it's own keyboard assignments, see the Edit - Preferences command in each kind of tab for more information.
To see a list of existing shortcuts, click on the List Assigned Shortcuts button. A window appears listing all assigned keys.
You may export your shortcut keys to another type of tab, user, or computer by clicking on the Export button and saving a shortcut bindings file (.bnd). When you click on the Export button, a browse window is opened which allows you to save the file. You may also import a shortcut bindings file by clicking on the Import button. When you click on the Import button, a browse window appears that allows you to select the desired file. When you click on the Open button in the browse window, the shortcut key definitions are imported and displayed in the Keyboard page.
Print File Information: Select this checkbox if you wish to include file information for the project(s)when you execute a print command in Sonnet. If this checkbox is not selected, only the graphic you selected to print appears in the print out. What file information in included in the printout is determined by the Options checkboxes below. You may also control the font size and whether you wish to have the information placed at the top or bottom of the printout.
Reset All: Clicking on this button turns on all hints, notices and reminders that have been turned off by the user. All hints, notices and reminders are on by default when you install the software.