Appendix A Getting Started With TIBCO Designer : TIBCO Designer Administration

TIBCO Designer Administration
When you start TIBCO Designer, the startup panel allows you to open projects (see Startup Options). You can also use the startup panel to perform some TIBCO Designer administrative tasks. When you choose the Administration tab, the panel presents the choices shown in Figure 2:
Figure 2 Startup panel Administration options
Displays a dialog that lets you specify the .dat file you want to convert and the folder for the multi-file project. Because a.dat file is a legacy format, you must convert it to a multi-file project before you can open a project from TIBCO Designer.
Displays a dialog that lets you choose a project directory and a .dat file. When you specify both, TIBCO Designer converts the multi-file project in the directory to the .dat file.
Configure preferences
Displays the Preferences dialog.
Configure runtime
Allows you to configure the TIBCO Designer runtime environment. You have these options:
Extended Class Path—classpath to be used by TIBCO Designer. You can specify file names or directories. If you specify directories, all .class, .zip and .jar files are loaded. The order in which the files are loaded depends on the file system.
Palette Path—Location from which TIBCO Designer loads palettes.
Maximum Heap Size—Maximum JVM heap size.
User Directory—Default location for the application to store files.
Command Line Arguments—Allows command line arguments to be passed to Designer. Currently -d (debug) is supported. If you specify -d, the log that is sent to the console becomes more detailed.
Runtime environment
Displays TIBCO Designer runtime information. This information, which includes palette name and version information and Java property and value information, can be useful for debugging or during interaction with TIBCO Technical Support.
Use the Export Runtime Settings command to create a file with all pertinent information.