View or Edit Dialog Box

See Also

• View
• Edit

Allows you to view or edit the selected file.

In Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere for VSS, select a file, click View File or Edit File on the Edit menu.

Remarks

You can specify whether to show this dialog box on Tools->Options->Command Dialogs Tab.

Dialog Box Items

Do you want to

Specifies the way to open the selected file. Possible options are:

• View SourceSafe's copy of this file: Allows you to get the file copy to a temp folder and view it.

• Check out this file and edit it in your working folder: Allows you to check out the file to your working folder and edit it.

Select an external editor application

Specifies the editor program for viewing or editing the selected file. Possible options are:

• Use the system default application for this file type: Opens the file with the system default application.

• Use Application: Opens the file with a specified application. You can click the Browse button to select an application and use arguments for the application if needed. For example, an appropriate entry in the Arguments field for Ultraedit is: %FILE%  /r /3/1. %FILE% represents the path of the file, /r represents that the opened file is read-only, /3/1 represents that the cursor is located in the 3rd row and 1st line when the file is open.

  Note: "%FILE%" is requested to represent the path of the file according to the requirement of some applications. The arguments for the external application should conform to its given syntactic regulation.

Only show this dialog when the Shift key is down

Hides this dialog box unless you hold down SHIFT key and select View or Edit command at the same time.

OK

Opens a file editor.

Cancel

Cancels the View or Edit command and closes the dialog box.