Several buttons in the IDE Preferences window control how the IDE applies your settings.

This section discusses the following topics:

• Discarding changes
• Factory Settings button
• Revert Panel button
• Save button
• Export Panel and Import Panel buttons
• OK, Cancel, and Apply buttons (Windows)

If you change the settings in the IDE Preferences window and then try to close the window, the dialog box shown in Figure 8.2 appears. To discard your changes, click Don't Save. To keep your changes, click Save. To discard your changes and return to the IDE Preferences window, click Cancel.

Click Factory Settings to revert the current preference panel to its default settings. Clicking this button does not affect the settings in other preference panels.

Click Revert Panel to undo the changes you made to the current preference panel. Clicking this button resets the preference panel to its last saved state.

Click Save to commit the current settings in all of the preference panels. After closing the IDE Preferences window, the CodeWarrior IDE behaves according to the preferences that you saved.

Click Export Panel to save the settings in the current preference panel to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file. Click Import Panel to open an existing XML file and apply its settings to the current preference panel.

Click OK to commit the current settings in all of the preference panels and close the IDE Preferences window. Click Cancel to discard your changes and close the window. Click Apply to commit the current settings in all of the preference panels without closing the window. After you click the Apply button, the Cancel button becomes the Close button. Click Close to dismiss the IDE Preferences window.