General Settings
You can customize the General Settings of the preferences and their default values.
General settings of the preferences
In the following the settings are described.
General Settings
Select the TPT file format you like to save your project in. The following formats can be chosen TPT, TPTZ, and TPTPRJ. For more information about the different formats, see Getting started - Create a Project.
Max. number of recently opened files
Determine the number of recently opened files listed in Files | Recently opened files.
Refactor on signal rename
Select this check box to activate the refactoring of the whole TPT project whenever a renaming happens in the Declaration Editor, see Refactoring.
Units are considered in calculations (default)
When this check box is selected, each new TPT project will consider the units in calculations, see Calculation with Units.
Prefix for new test cases
By default, the prefix for new test cases is Test Case. This prefix can be changed.
Workbench
Auto completion hot key
Specify the auto-completion shortcut. Ctrl+Space is the default combination. Enter the key combination that should be used as shortcut for auto-completion. Restart TPT or change the current view for the change to take effect.
Version info
Enter the information that should be displayed in the TPT window title.
Show full path
Select this check box to show the full path of the currently selected TPT file in the TPT window title.
Version info and full path displayed in the TPT window title
URIs to link in styled text
Change the syntax of the regular expression that is used to automatically display text elements as clickable hyperlink (Ctrl+Left-click) in the Description view and the Test Case Details view.
Activate "Report always (not only if assesslet result is Failed)" for new assesslets
Activate this option to add also passed assesslets to the report. This setting affects only new assesslets. If deselected, the result of new assesslets are by default only added to the report if the result is "failed".
Enable to open the declaration editor in assesslets using Ctrl + Click
Select this check box to open the Declaration Editor in assesslets by using Ctrl+Click on declared channels, parameters, etc. in assesslets.
Enable "classical" key bindings for step creation
Enable this option to support the shortcuts known from previous TPT versions. The shortcuts are displayed as tooltips when you hover with the mouse over the step types in the drop-down list.
"Classical" shortcuts for step types
Enable styled text in all documentation fields for steps
With styled text you can change the color of selected words or characters, the font size, the background color, and the font style.
Styled text
The formatting of the text is saved within the TPT file. The report will display the formatted text.
Copy and paste of formatted text works, but only within the same TPT instance and not with formatted text from other sources (Word, HTML etc.).
Default documentation step style
A default character format for the Documentation step can be specified. It will be used in all new Documentation Steps, see Step Type - Documentation.
Enable to open the declaration editor in steps using Ctrl+Click
Enable to open the Declaration Editor in the step list using Ctrl+Click while you hover over the declaration fields.
Enable "Report always (not only on error)" by default for new step list variants
Enable this option to include each new step list variant result in the report no matter the result. You can always set the Report always (turned ON) or only on error (turned OFF) option in the step list toolbar for each individual variant.
Default compare step type
The default type to use for new compare steps in the step list can be defined. Compare steps have the four types: Exists, Always, First, and Last. Check if the condition in the compare step is true at least once (Exists), always (Always), at the beginning (First) or at the end (Last) of the current step list section.
Select as font size either 10, 20, or 30 pt. The font size is used in the message box step that will show up during the test execution to inform the tester or to ask him/her to do anything. More about the message box step, see Step Type - Message box.
Show message boxes on secondary monitor
By default, the message box is displayed during the test execution on the primary screen, that is the screen where TPT is running.
To display the message box by default on the secondary screen, select this check box.
Report
Select a font from the drop-down list. The selected font will be used in the PDF report.
Select the plug-ins to be loaded on startup. Plug-ins marked with an asterisk (*) require a license option. Restart TPT to apply the changes.
Dialog Auto Answers
Dialog auto answers react automatically to message boxes of TPT that inform or warn you. An example of such a message box is the Welcome screen that is automatically loaded whenever you start TPT.
If you do not want to react to this Welcome screen every time you start TPT, select the check box Do not show this screen on every start of TPT that is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The suppressed Welcome screen is then listed in the Dialog Auto Answer section.
To activate the screen again, select the entry and click Delete the selected Auto Answer Preference 
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Dialog Auto Answers list
Obsolete Features
Enable obsolete feature "Explicit 'Time Signal' in Signal Definition Wizard"
The Signal Definition Wizard in the step list supported an external time signal that specified the time axis. This feature will be removed in future versions of TPT since modern file formats contain the time axis anyway, see Step List - Signal Definition Wizard.
You can store variables globally, so all TPT project files of the current TPT installation can handle the variables. You can, for example, specify a variable for a basic directory and reuse the variable name in any directory field of the Execution Configuration dialog. For more information about global variables, see Global Variables.