The Configuration Plugin

The Configuration Plugin contains all the configuration options in OBO-Edit. Open the Configuration Plugin by selecting it from the "Plugins" menu:

The "Save Configuration" button accepts any changes and updates the display. There are several tabs of configuration info. The first tab is "General GUI".

General GUI Options

Relationship Type Icons

These controls allow a custom icon to be specified for a relationship type. This does not create new relationship types! It just associates an icon with a relationship type.

Note that relationship types don't need a custom icon. If no icon is specified, OBO-Edit will display the default icon, consisting of a black rectangle containing the relationship type id in black text.

To edit an existing relationship type icon association, left-click the association to edit it. The icon association editor will appear:

Enter the id of the relationship type to associate into the "Relationship type" box. Type a file location or URL for an image file to use as an icon into the "Icon URL" box. To pick an image file from the local disk, press the "Browse files" button. To use one of OBO-Edit's built-in icons, press the "Browse built-in icons" button.

To delete a relationship type icon association, left-click the association and press the "Del" button.

To add a new relationship type icon association, press the "Add" button. A new association will be created with the id "UNKNOWN" and the icon path "<new icon path>".

Runtime display options

Startup Options

These are options that do not take effect until OBO-Edit is restarted.

Paths & Autosave

Paths

Autosave Options

Behavior

User Settings

User Info

Text Editing

This section controls text-editing behaviors in OBO-Edit.

Display Layout

This section controls the layout of the main OBO-Edit user interface. Users can create a custom layout using a special XML format. Components and plugins can be arranged however a user wants:

 

The large text box contains the XML code for the layout. See Customizing the Interface to learn how to specify a custom layout.

The xml editor does some syntax highlighting, automatic text generating and auto-indenting. The line number and column number of the current cursor position are displayed in a label below the xml editor. If there is an error in the layout, an error message will appear beneath the xml editor when the "Save Configuration" button is pressed.

To automatically indent the XML code, press the "Auto-Indent XML" button.

The "Import XML File..." button loads an XML layout file from a local disk. The "Export XML File..." button saves the current layout to a file. These buttons allow users to share useful layouts with other users.

To return to the default OBO-Edit layout, press the "Load default layout" button.