Setting the User Preferences

When getting started, you need to set up some files and drivers to use the full functionality of the Power*Architect. If you have not already done so already, please go to "User Preferences" under the File Menu to configure the Power*Architect. This will pop up a dialog (shown below) where you can specify your file locations.

The pl.ini file stores the database connections that you set up (see JDBC Drivers on page 8). If you leave this location blank, the Architect program will prompt you to use a default location when you start it up. If you have a pl.ini file from other SQL Power applications you should generally use the same file, as doing so will save you from having to re-enter all your database connection information. The Power*Loader Engine setting is optional; if you are not using the Power*Loader engine you can leave this blank; if you are, you should set it to the location where the Power*Loader Engine program is installed on your system. The next two settings are for log files that will be written when you use the ETL and Forward Engineering functions of the application. The final setting controls the operations of graphics in the PlayPen. Turning "antialiased rendering" on may give better display of the graphical database layouts shown in the PlayPen, but may use more CPU time in the process.