Options dialog box

This pane enables you to add, delete, or modify tags names that you can use to label comment tasks in your scripts.

Tags. List of available tags.

Name. Displays the name of the highlighted tags in the token list. This area enables you to modify, add, or delete the current tag.

Add. Enables you to add a tag to the token list.

Edit. Enables you to modify the name of tag from the token list.

Delete. Enables you to delete a tag from the token list.

Default project location

Enables you to specify a path to your saved projects. Default location = C:\Users\<username>\Documents\SharpDevelop Projects

Load previous solution on startup

Enables you to automatically load the previous solution.

By default this option is enabled.

Display Start Page on startup

By default this option is enabled.

Close Start Page after script loads

By default this option is enabled.

Connects to OpenText Application Quality Management using CAC (Common Access Card). This enables you to log in without providing a username and password.

Automatically wraps text to the next line.

Show or hide the Class/Function Browser. When enabled, you can navigate quickly to a specific class or function in your script by selecting it from the drop-down list in the browser.

Enable line numbering of script in the Editor.

By default this option is enabled.

Enable the editor to check for end of line inconsistencies in your script. If enabled, a utility appears in the script editor that enables you to normalize line endings based either on a Windows standard (CRLF) or a Linux standard (LF).

Enable URLs in scripts to function as hypertext links. Disabling this option may improve performance.

By default this option is enabled.

Enable markers that indicate where tabs exists.

By default this option is disabled.

Enable markers that indicate where line ends.

By default this option is disabled.

Enable markers that indicate where line ends.

By default this option is disabled.

Enable underlining of errors.

By default this option is enabled.

Enable highlighting of matching brackets.

By default this option is enabled.

When this option is enabled, you can select a non-keyword in your script and the Editor will highlight all other occurrences in your script.

class MyClass
{
    void foo()
    {
        int i;
        for (i = 0 i < 10; i++)
        {
        }
        int index;
        for (index = 0 index < 10; index++)
            while(true)
            {
            }
            while (true)
            {
            }
    }

By default this option is enabled.

Enables you to set the spacing for tab indentation.

Default indentation is four spaces.

Converts tabs to spaces.

By default this option is disabled.

Automatically applies the indentation format from the previous line.

By default this option is enabled.

Enables you to use the mouse wheel to zoom.

By default this option is enabled.

Allows you to cut or copy an entire line without highlighting it in the editor, as long as the cursor is within that line.

By default this option is enabled.

Enables the Ctrl + Click shortcut for "Go To Definition". This lets you move the cursor to the definition of a function you control-click on in the editor.

By default this option is enabled.

To enable this option for an extra file containing custom functions, right-click on the file in the Solution Explorer and select "Add to Parsing List". Parsing list functionality applies only to C language functions and the Web HTTP/HTML protocol JavaScript functions.

Drop-down list of script languages for which you can customize appearance.

Code completion features are enabled. For details on code completion, see Editor pane.

By default this option is enabled.

Enables tooltips that display function arguments. Each argument is highlighted as you are defining it, moving to the subsequent argument when the delimiter is entered.

By default this option is enabled.

When this option is enabled, a description of the code elements is displayed when the mouse hovers over the identifier. This option is disabled when Show tooltips in debug mode only is enabled.

By default this option is enabled.

Tooltips are displayed in debug mode only.

By default this option is disabled.

Enables you to include ANSI C keywords in code completion list.

By default this option is enabled.

Enables you to include VuGen API steps in the code completion list.

By default this option is enabled.

Enables you to include VuGen API constants in the code completion list.

By default this option is disabled.

Enables you to include user-defined functions in the code completion list.

By default this option is enabled.

Enables you to include function parameters, local, and global variables in the code completion list.

By default this option is enabled.

This option enables expanding and collapsing of script sections.

By default this option is enabled.

This option enables expanding and collapsing of script steps.

By default this option is disabled.

Enables you define the number of characters in a step before implementing folding.

By default this option is disabled.

Enables you to define the number of lines to a step before implementing folding.

By default this option is disabled.

Display a transparent floating recording toolbar. When you click or hover on the toolbar it becomes opaque.

By default this option is disabled.

Enable the Cancel Recording button on the floating recording toolbar.

By default, this option is enabled.

Automatically open the Start Recording Dialog Box after a new script is created.

By default this option is disabled.

Enable this function if you want VuGen to insert an end transaction step for open transactions before recording a subsequent action.

By default this option is disabled.

Enable this function if you want VuGen to check for an Internet connection before recording starts.

Note: The Internet connection is checked by pinging google.com. If the Google server is not available (for example no external Internet) this could indicate a false-positive. In such cases, disable this check box.

Enables the generation of a Recording report.

To automatically display the report after generating the code, select Display the Recording report when recording is finished.

Note: The Recording report is available for Web HTTP/HTML and SAP - Web scripts only.

When selected, the recording events are not displayed in the Output pane during the recording process. This can prevent VuGen from freezing when recording large events.

The recording log file is loaded once the recording is complete.

Do not switch the layout during Replay. By default, when you replay a script, VuGen automatically switches the UI layout to the Debug layout. This option enables you to maintain your selected layout during replay.

By default this option is disabled.

Animated Run: Runs the script in animated mode, highlighting the line in the script that is currently running. In non-animated mode, VuGen runs the script, but does not indicate the line being executed. By default this option is enabled.

Animated Run Delay: You can set a delay of the highlighting in the animated run, allowing you to better view the effects of each step. You set the delay in milliseconds. The default delay is 1 ms.

Animate functions in the Action section only: Only animates the content of the Action sections, but not the init or end sections. By default this option is enabled.

Enable result of replay summary to be saved to a named folder after each script run

When this option is enabled the dialog box prompts you to name a results file before running a script in VuGen. When not enabled, VuGen automatically names the directory 'result1'. Subsequent script runs will automatically overwrite previous results files, unless you specify a different name.

By default this option is disabled.

• Show runtime view during replay

  Enables the runtime viewer

• Auto Arrange Window

  Select this option to arrange the two viewers side by side. This option is disabled by default.

• Collect replay statistics

  Select this option to enable the collection of replay-time statistics. The data collected is displayed in the Replay Summary report. This option is enabled by default. For details, see Replay Summary pane.

• Display NV Insights report

  Select this option to enable the NV Insights report. For details, see NV Insights report.

  This option is enabled by default when the NV for Load Generator and VuGen component is installed on the VuGen machine.

  Note: This option is available only if the required Network Virtualization component is installed. For details, see Network Virtualization.

Enables you to modify the list of valid file extensions that can be edited in the Editor.

The comparison tool to be used when comparing two scripts.

VuGen is installed with a default comparison tool (WinMerge). To use a different comparison tool, browse to the location of the tool on your local machine.

A list of the command line arguments to use with your comparison tool.

The mandatory default arguments %1 and %2 should not be modified.

The merge tool to use for combining files, for example, when working with Git repositories. For details, see Manage scripts with Git.

VuGen is installed with a default merge tool (WinMerge). To use a different merge tool, browse to the location of the tool on your local machine.

A list of the command line arguments to use with your merge tool.

The mandatory default arguments /e /u /dl %title1 /dr %title2 %1 %2 should not be modified.

This option enables you to highlight filtered steps in your script.

Enables slide view of generated thumbnails in the Thumbnail Explorer. Double clicking a thumbnail sets the cursor at the associated step in the script.

Optimize VuGen's performance by saving rendered thumbnails to a cache file. Thumbnails are loaded from the cache file after the initial generation.

Word wrap

Enables word wrapping in the Output pane.

Text Font

Enables you to select a font for the text that appears in the Output pane.

Size

Enables you to select a font size for the text that appears in the Output pane.

Use color coding to display text in the Output pane

Enables color coding of the text that appears in the Output pane. Color coding may slow down system response while a very large output log is displayed (rendered) in the Output pane or as you scroll through the output log.

File path of the TLS CA certificate to connect to the collector (if required).

Authorization header to send data to the collector (if required).

Browse

Enables you to set the location of the Eclipse program, eclipse.exe.

For details on supported versions, see the Support Matrix.

Enables you to define which JRE VuGen should use for code generation and other actions:

• The JRE installed on your machine, detected automatically by VuGen. Select Use internal logic to locate JRE/JDK. (Default)

• A custom JRE. Select Custom JRE path and browse to a valid JRE folder. You may need to restart VuGen for the change to take effect.

For details, see Java code support.

Note: When selecting this option, the experimental Java version must be 1.8 or later.

Shows the Citrix client during script replay.

Issues a popup message when inserting a Get Text or Sync Bitmap function before selecting a bitmap or text in the snapshot.

Enables the Create Correlation context menu item in the Replay snapshot's Response Body pane.

This option instructs VuGen to format the data so that it is open for correlations. When disabled, VuGen only generates raw data which cannot be altered.

Enables the viewing of snapshots when you click on a step in the editor or step navigator. This option allows you to improve VuGen's performance when working with very large scripts.

Enables the following XML viewer visual features:

• XML tree
• coloring

Clear this option to reduce the amount of memory consumed by the XML view.

Allows snapshots to be cached.

Clear this option where you are working with large snapshots and are running out of memory.

The left parameter delimiter.

The following characters are valid: !, #, $, %, &, (, ), [, ], {, }, |, ~, `, <, >, ?

The right parameter delimiter.

The following characters are valid: !, #, $, %, &, (, ), [, ], {, }, |, ~, `, <, >, ?

Disabling the C language parser may improve application performance when you are working with very large scripts. However, the following features will be disabled:

• Editing step arguments in the Editor

• Step navigator

• Correlations

• Script regeneration

• Snapshots
• Tasks
• Thumbnails
• inline code completion
• Additional step-related functionality

This option is enabled by default.