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You can define preferences in order to adjust ABAP Development Tools (ADT) to the required usage.

Context

Note The following preference paths are created on the basis of Eclipse 4.4 (Luna). They might be different in later versions.

Procedure

To open the Preferences page, choose Start of the navigation path Windows Next navigation step Preferences End of the navigation path from the menu bar.

Resizing Fonts

You can resize fonts for displaying text in bigger letters to improve readability.

Context

Recommendation SAP recommends that you use the standard Eclipse themes and the Windows display settings to resize fonts in Eclipse.

Procedure

  1. In the Start of the navigation path General Next navigation step Appearance End of the navigation path Preferences page, choose one of the following themes from the list box:
    • Default
    • Classic
    • Windows 7
    Note Use one of the themes from the list above. Other themes might not work for all controls.
  2. Open the MS Windows display settings.
  3. Enlarge the font size to 150%, for example.
  4. Restart your Eclipse client.

Results

In ADT, the larger font size should now be available on all text-based controls.
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Setting Colors

You can adjust the color of the displayed text to suit your own needs.

Context

Eclipse provides options for changing the colors - for example, for the following features:

  • Syntax Coloring (ABAP keywords in general and at keyword level)
  • ABAP Profiler
  • ABAP Code Coverage

If required, you can adopt the provided preferences as follows:

Procedure

  1. To configure syntax coloring in general, for example, for ABAP source code and CDS/DDL objects, open the Start of the navigation path General Next navigation step Appearance Next navigation step Colors and Fonts End of the navigation path Preferences page.
    1. Choose the theme from the Theme listbox.
    2. Then choose the corresponding tree element and define the color.
  2. To configure colors at ABAP keyword level or the sequence of several ABAP keywords used within a statement, open the Start of the navigation path ABAP Development Next navigation step Editors Next navigation step Source Code Editors Next navigation step ABAP Keyword Colors End of the navigation path Preferences page.
    1. Change the corresponding color.
  3. To configure the colors of annotation types, open the Start of the navigation path General Next navigation step Editors Next navigation step Text Editors Next navigation step Annotations End of the navigation path Preferences page.
    1. Change the color of the corresponding annotation type.
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Setting Higher Contrast

In Eclipse, you can work with the higher contrast mode of your operating system. This enables you to improve readability, for example.

Context

When you are using the High Contrast Mode of your operating system, SAP recommends that you adapt the preferences, as follows, to suit your needs:

Procedure

  1. To open the Preferences page, choose Start of the navigation path Windows Next navigation step Preferences End of the navigation path from the menu bar.
  2. Open the Start of the navigation path General Next navigation step Editors Next navigation step Text Editors End of the navigation path Preferences page and deselect the Highlight current line checkbox.
  3. To adapt the appearance of the ABAP occurrence annotations (ABAP Occurrences, ABAP Indirect Occurrences, ABAP Tentative Occurrences and ABAP Write Occurrences), open theStart of the navigation path General Next navigation step Editors Next navigation step Text Editors Next navigation step Annotations End of the navigation path Preferences page.
    By default, the ABAP occurrence annotations are highlighted with a grey background color.
    1. To enable these annotations - for example, for the high contrast mode, choose Underlined in the Text as droplist box.
    2. To contrast annotations from the background, define the underline color by choosing the corresponding color in the Color field.

Enabling Screen Readers

A screen reader is an additional application that transforms displayed text into an electronic voice. As a result, the user can follow this voice.

To activate the corresponding accessibility feature, select the following checkboxes:

Accessibility Feature Preferences Path Preferences Setting
Avoids appearance of the progress indication dialogs, which require some time to get read by the screen reader Start of the navigation path General End of the navigation path Always run in background checkbox
Enables the screen reader to read more information in table controls, and so on Start of the navigation path ABAP Development Next navigation step Additional Accessibility Information End of the navigation path Enable additional accessibility information checkbox
Opens the embedded SAP GUI transactions as a separate window Start of the navigation path ABAP Development Next navigation step SAP GUI Integration End of the navigation path Open SAP GUI as separate window checkbox
Opens status messages in a dialog
Note Status messages are also displayed in the status bar.
 Start of the navigation path ABAP Development Next navigation step Notifications End of the navigation path Show error status messages also in a dialog box and Show information status messages also in a dialog box checkboxes

To reduce the number of entries in the main menu and toolbar, you can enable or disable entries in the Customize Perspective dialog. Open it through Start of the navigation path Window Next navigation step Customize Perspective... End of the navigation path from the menu bar. Then, select the relevant checkboxes in the tabs Tool Bar Visibility, Menu Visibility, and Shortcuts.