You can use this dialogue (accessed from the <PR> button on the top toolbar) to control the detailed behaviour of the alignment tools and to reduce the list of classes on the ‘New’ sub-menus to those appropriate to your system.

The ‘Alignment gap’ is used to space out the selected objects when you Shift-Click either of the two alignment tools (use 0 for buttons on a toolbar, 8 is a good number for vertically separating edit fields); the ‘Frame offset’ is specific to the ‘Frame’ tool. It determines how much space to leave as a border around the entire collection of framed tools.

Note that you can exclude the Windows-95 controls (such as the tree, listview, rich-text) from the set of available objects, and if you are designing a form which may be converted to HTML you can restrict your choice very severely to the simple controls which may be used in an HTML form.

If you use the right-mouse button on the property browser you can set it to stay on top (handy for laptop users designing large forms) and also control the ‘Snap to grid’ behaviour of controls as they are drawn, resized or moved.

You can start the object sorter from here, and also use this as a quick exit point if you have opened several forms at the same time.

All these preferences are saved for you in Causeway.ini (in the Windows directory) whenever you exit the designer.