Adams Car Preferences

Manages Adams Car application settings. Previously, these settings were modified in the private configuration file (.acar.cfg) using a text editor. The various settings have been grouped into categories, shown below. Changes to these settings are saved into the .acar.cfg file in the user’s profile. A mapping of the old acar.cfg environment variables to the new settings follows the documentation of the various categories, below.

The scope of this tool is limited to usage within the Adams Car GUI (Graphical User Interface). If a user wants to alter settings without opening Adams Car, it is possible to do so by editing the *.cfg file in a text editor.

A mapping of the legacy acar.cfg Environment Variables to the new settings follows the documentation of the various categories, below.

Legacy Adams Car configuration file settings, found in the .acar.cfg file, contained many environment variables that users may be familiar with. These environment variables have been translated to preferences variables in the Adams database, as shown in the table below. Making changes to the Preferences dialog box now writes settings to these new preferences variables and no longer uses the environment variables. Starting an Adams Car session with an old .acar.cfg file containing any of the variables shown below will result in a one-time translation into the new preferences variable equivalent.