Open the Start-up preferences

Either open ORCA with the last configuration used or start with an untitled new configuration.

Enable/Disable bug reporting. If enabled and ORCA crashes, the crash dump will be mailed to everyone in the mail list the next time that ORCA is restarted.

Either open new dialogs using existing open dialogs of the same type or always open a new dialog.

Open the Appearance preferences

Set the background color of the main configuration window. Note--also affect the background color of other main container windows (i.e. process control window)

Set the color of the lines that connect the objects on the main configuration window

Set the type of connection line between objects on the main configuration window

Enable/Disable global dialog security. You will be asked for a password to disable security. Once enabled, most dialog will have many functions locked out, which will only be accessible after a password is given to unlock that dialog.

Open the Security preferences

Open the bug reporting preferences

Note that you must configure a mail app (i.e. Mail) with all of the correct e-mail account information for the user that is running ORCA. Otherwise, the crash logs will not be mailed.

Open the Script editor’s syntax coloring preferences

Customize the script editor’s syntax coloring scheme

Customize the script editor background color

Open the Help path preferences

If you don’t have web access, but have a copy of the ORCA help, set the local path location here

The default web location is hard coded in ORCA. At the time of this writing it is <http://128.95.100.177/~markhowe> but may change without notice.

Location to store the status log files. Every 15 minutes the log is appended to today’s log. A new file is started everyday.

Turn on/off the options to store the log and the heartbeat.

Open the Heartbeat preferences

Select whether mail should be sent via Apple Mail or some other mail server, i.e. gmail

Note that the logs saved here are  separate from the logs stored in the disk object. You may store them both in the same folder, but the logs saved by the disk object are associated with a particular run.

This entries are only if NOT using Apple Mail

User name and password of account that is sending the mail

If using gmail, you MUST setup the account properly for ‘Less Secure’ apps