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Setting Identifier Options

When creating context-sensitive Help (CSH), you can set options for new identifiers in advance. Doing this will supply some of the information (e.g., starting value, prefix, include topic in ID name, assign skin) for you automatically as you create new identifiers. See Creating and Assigning Identifiers.

Closedhow to set identifier options
  1. Open an alias file.
  2. In the local toolbar of the Alias Editor click . The Identifier Options dialog opens.

  3. Complete any of the options as necessary:

    Closedstarting value

    Enter the starting value for identifiers that you create. Additional identifiers that are created will be incremented automatically based on that starting value.

    Closeduse prefix

    Select this check box and enter a prefix to be added at the beginning of each new identifier that you create (e.g., ID_, Dialog, Module1).

    Closedinclude topic name in identifier name

    Select this check box if you want the names of the assigned topics to be included automatically in the names of the new identifiers.

    Closedcapitalize identifier names

    Select this check box if you want the name that is automatically added for new identifiers to use all caps.

    Closeddefault skin

    Select this check box and from the drop-down field choose the skin that you want to be assigned by default to new identifiers that are created. Of course, you can always manually select a different skin for any identifier, but when you first create a new identifier, it will initially be assigned to the default skin that you specified.

    Closedprimary header

    Select this check box and from the drop-down field choose a specific header file, if you have more than one in your project. When you are working in the Alias Editor, you can select a specific header file in the local toolbar. But what if you do not select a header file and "(all identifiers)" is shown in the drop-down field in the Alias Editor? In that case, the changes you make in the Alias Editor are applied to the primary header file that you have selected in the Identifier Options dialog.

    Closedvalue format

    You can specify whether the identifier values should use a decimal or hexadecimal format. Using hexadecimal values does not affect your CSH in a different way; it's simply another option in case your developers prefer that format.

  4. Click OK.
ClosedWhat's Next?

After you set identifier options, you can create and assign identifiers so that they automatically use those options. See Creating and Assigning Identifiers.