Bellhop Help

Preferences

You can customize the appearance of Bellhop using the application preferences (Bellhop > Preferences ). Using the preferences panel, you can control the fonts and colors of the service editor. Figure 2 below shows the available settings.


Preferences panel

Clicking on the "Choose..." button next to the font text field will bring up a font panel from which you can select the font for your script code in the service code editor. This font will be used to display the all code for all services. The background color of the service code editor is shown in the "Bkgnd" color well. Clicking in the color well will display a color picker, from which you can choose the background color for the service code editor.

Syntax highlighting is used to color the actual syntax of your service scripts. You can set the colors for comments, strings, identifiers, and preprocessor directives (these aren't really common in scripting languages, however). The actual syntax highlighting is dependent on the scripting family's execution context, and may not actually show anything different if the context doesn't provide a configuration. The two built-in contexts should work, however.