As you work in a project within RockWorks, most of the program settings - the thousands of check-boxes, file names, and other options that you establish in the program menus - are stored in two files on your computer.
- Project-Specific Settings: These settings (which are the vast majority) are stored in a file named "menus.ini" in the "System" folder that is created inside each Project Folder. Examples of these settings would include gridding and contouring options, striplog setup, etc.
- Global Settings: These settings, which probably won't vary much from project to project (and which would be very annoying to change as you move to different projects) are stored in a file "GlobalSettings.ini" in the program's main System folder. Many of these settings are established in the Preferences | General Program Settings menu item, such as whether the Help window is displayed on program startup, or how wide the Project Manager pane should be.
RockWorks contains some handy tools for managing these settings, listed below by functionality.
- Creating a new project: As you create a new project in RockWorks, you have the option of bringing in the project-specific menu settings from an existing project. (You can bring other project data in, as well.) This can be helpful if the data is similar and you want to start work in the new project based on where you left off in the old.
- Making backups: Use the Preferences | Export Menu Settings option to store a copy of your current Global and/or Project settings (for all menus) in "ini" file(s) - handy if you're fiddling around with settings and may want to go back to a previous configuration.
- Restoring settings from backups: Use the Preferences | Import Menu Settings option to bring into the program a copy of the global and/or project settings (for all menus) previously saved.
- Technical support and backups: Export the settings for the current menu you're working in, using the Menu | Save to RCL option in the menu window itself. "RCL" stands for "RockWare Command Language" and can be used to run RockWorks using scripts (RockWorks Advanced only). The RCL menu lists can also, however, be used by our support staff to trouble-shoot problems you're experiencing with the software. (RCL lists can be brought into the current menu using the Load from RCL option.)
- Sharing settings with a co-worker:
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- Use the Save to RCL and Load from RCL menu options to share settings for specific program options with co-workers.
- Use the Preferences | Export Menu Settings and Import Menu Settings to share all program settings with co-workers.
See also: RCL
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