BlackAdder Configuration
By choosing -
you open the preferences
dialog window. Here you can alter BlackAdder's configuration
options.
As you can see, there are six tab panels:
General, Python, Ruby, Editor, Form Editor and Debugger. In its
current incarnation, BlackAdder supports not only Python, but
also another scripting language: Ruby
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/). Ruby was created by the Japanese
hacker Yukihiro Matsumoto, and is quite akin to Python. In this
book I don't concern myself with the Ruby bindings to Qt.
Most of the options are quite
self-explanatory. You can ask BlackAdder to not show its splash
screen, to automatically open the most recently opened project
file, to alter the font used in the editor and interpreter
windows, to show a grid in the forms editor, and whether or not
to show certain categories of variables in the debugger.
One thing I advise you to change is the
default indentation width in the Editor tab. Python source code
is best appreciated when you write it using an indentation level
of four spaces and no tabs. The auto-indent is also
helpful.