Global

To open the Global options preferences page, go to Options > Preferences > Global.

The following user options are available:

• Automatic Version Checking - checks whether a new version of Syncro SVN Client is available;
• Language - allows you to localize the interface and change the language to English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, or Italian. Restart the application to apply the current selection;
• Other language - allows you to set the file (either properties or XML) that contains interface messages translated into a different language than the default one;
  Note: After restarting the application, if some interface labels are not rendered correctly (for example Chinese or Korean characters), install the corresponding language pack from your OS installation kit (for example the East-Asian language pack).
• Look and Feel - use this option to change graphic style (look and feel) of the user interface;
• Styles - on Windows there are available the following styles:
  • Office 2003
  • Vsnet
  • Eclipse
  • Xerto
  • Default
  Note: After changing the style, restart the application in order for the modification to take effect.

  On Linux there are available the following styles:

  • Eclipse
  • Default
  Note: After changing the style, you have to restart the application in order for the modification to take effect.

  On Mac OS X this option is not available.

• Themes - on Windows this option is enabled only for the Office 2003 and Default styles. In these cases, the following themes are available:
  • normal Color
  • home Stead
  • metallic
  • default
  • gray

  On Linux and Mac OS X this option is not available.

• Line separator - this option defines the line separator. The System Default choice sets the platform-specific line separator;
• Detect the line separator on file open - when this option is checked, the editor detects the line separator when the edited file is loaded and it uses it when the file is saved. The new files are saved using the line separator defined by the Line separator option;
• Show memory status -enable this option to view the memory Syncro SVN Client uses. To free memory, click the Run Garbage Collector button located in the bottom right corner of the screen. The memory status bar has a light blue background which turns yellow or red when Syncro SVN Client uses too much memory;
• Show Java vendor warning at startup - Sun Microsystems/Oracle Java VM (on Windows and Linux) or Apple Computer Java VM (on Mac OS X) is recommended for running the application. If a different Java Virtual Machine is used, then a warning is displayed. This option allows the user to choose whether the warning dialog is shown or not:
• Show hidden files and directories - shows system hidden files and folders in the file browser dialog and the folder browser dialog. This setting is not available on Mac OS X.