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Project Preferences

Project preferences and its children provides options for modifying the defaults and behavior of creating projects and the elements that can be contained by projects.

General Preferences

These general settings are used for all type of project-elements such as layers and maps.

Delete project files?

Indicates to remove file resources from filesystem once the maps or layers were removed from map.

Default is checked

Undo history size

Number of possible steps to undo

Default is 10

Layer Preferences

Color Highlighting

TBD

Default is None

Map Preferences

Map Preference page is used to supply system wide defaults for the Map Editor.

Remove Temporary Layers on exit

When checked this option will remove temporary layers from the map. If it is not checked the layer will stay in the map, but all data is lost since the layer is temporary. This option can be useful if the FeatureType is complex and recreating the FeatureType can be time consuming.

Default is checked

Warn when an irreversible command is about to be executed

TBD

Default is checked

EPSG code of default CRS

Declares what the default CRS is, a value of -1 is used to indicate that the value should be determiend from the data.

You may wish to change this setting when working with a large number of shapefiles that make use of the same projection.

The default value is -1.

Default map background color

The color of the map’s background.

Default is white.

Selection Color

The color that selected feature will be drawn in.

Default is dark yellow.

Selection Color 2

TBD

Default is black.

Default Palette

TBD

Printing Preferences

Default Template

Declares what page template should be used by default.

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