Lesson 18: Customizing VTS

Objectives:

•      Learn about customizing the behavior and appearance of VTS for your applications;

•      Learn about configuration files; and

•      Learn how to modify the settings of configuration files.

Lesson 18 Overview

VTS provides a multitude of customizable options that can help you tailor the behavior and appearance of each application you create, depending upon your specific requirements. This is done using configuration files.

 

VTS stores configuration information in text files that end with the .INI extension. Because the information is stored in a text file, you can easily make changes to it using any text editor.

Some of the VTS configuration files affect the system-wide appearance and behavior of the VTS program itself. Others are application-specific and change the appearance and behavior of VTS for a single application only. For this lesson, you will be editing the CONFIG.INI file found in the tutorial application directory.

 

Changes to the config.ini file will take effect only when the application is re-started.

Estimated Time

It is estimated that Lesson 18 will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.