User Settings
The User Settings dialog provides application-wide configuration options that control how Cruncher behaves, where it stores outputs, and how information is displayed. These settings are stored in the user’s registry and persist across sessions.
Processing
- Processing Cores
- Specifies how many SimAuto instances are started when the SimAuto manager connects. Click the CPU icon to select the maximum available on the machine. Changes only take effect after disconnecting and reconnecting the manager.
- Auto-start SimAuto
- When enabled, automatically connects the SimAuto manager at application startup .
Timezones
- Use Timezone
- Overrides the machine’s system timezone with a user-specified timezone for the application .
- Default Input Timezone
- Sets a default timezone for reading Inputs when no timezone is specified in the Input configuration .
Defaults Directory Locations
- Default Results
- Folder path to use as the Results location for newly created Studies .
- Default Archive
- Folder path to use as the Archive location for newly created Studies .
- Default Schedules
- File path pointing to a JSON file containing a set of Schedules. If specified, the schedules are automatically loaded on startup .
Alarms
- Enable Alarms
- Top-level checkbox to enable or disable alarm generation for Studies and Schedules .
- Alarms
- Folder path specifying where alarm JSON files are exported .
- Heartbeat Interval
- Controls how often Cruncher updates a heartbeat file in the alarms location. External programs can use this file to detect if Cruncher has shut down improperly .
Logging
- Log Window
- Sets how long logs remain in the application’s log window during extended runs .
- Text Log Directory
- Folder path where Cruncher writes plain text copies of log activity, including errors not handled by the GUI .
Other
- Enable Save Checks
- When this setting is enabled, Cruncher will note to the user if they are closing a Study or Schedule dialog with unsaved changes.
Display
Settings under this tab take effect the next time Cruncher starts up .
- Theme Scale
- Adjusts text scaling throughout the application .
- Default Color
- Sets the application’s accent color .
- Processing Color
- Color used to indicate an active process .
- Success Color
- Color used to indicate successful completion of a process .
- Warning Color
- Color used to indicate a warning during a process .
- Error Color
- Color used to indicate an error in a process .
- Restore Default Colors
- Resets all user-customized colors to the application defaults .