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+NAME="CONFIG-TOOL-USING-TEMPLATES">Using Templates</H1
+><P
+>To load a configuration based on a template, select
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
+CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+>Build</I
+></SPAN
+>-><SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
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+>Templates</I
+></SPAN
+>.</P
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+>The following dialog box will be displayed:</P
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+><B
+>Figure 19-4. Templates dialog box</B
+></P
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+><IMG
+SRC="pix/templates.png"></P
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+><P
+>Change the hardware template, the packages template, or
+ both. To select a hardware template, choose from the first
+ drop-list. To choose a packages template, choose from the
+ second. Brief descriptions of each kind of template are
+ provided in the corresponding edit boxes.</P
+><DIV
+CLASS="SECT2"
+><H2
+CLASS="SECT2"
+><A
+NAME="RESOLVING-CONFLICTS">Resolving conflicts</H2
+><P
+>During the process of configuring <SPAN
+CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
+>eCos</SPAN
+> it is possible
+ that conflicts will be created. For more details of the
+ meaning of conflicts, see <A
+HREF="cdl-concepts.html"
+>Chapter 24</A
+>.</P
+><P
+>The Conflicts Window displays all conflicts in the
+ current configuration. Additionally, a window in the
+ status bar displays a count of the conflicts. Because the
+ resolution of conflicts can be time-consuming, a mechanism
+ exists whereby conflicts can be resolved
+ automatically.</P
+><P
+>You can choose to have a conflicts resolution dialog
+ box displayed by means of the <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
+CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+>View->Settings...
+ </I
+></SPAN
+>menu item, on the <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
+CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+>Conflict Resolution</I
+></SPAN
+>
+tab of the dialog.</P
+><DIV
+CLASS="FIGURE"
+><A
+NAME="AEN1430"><P
+><B
+>Figure 19-5. Options</B
+></P
+><P
+><IMG
+SRC="pix/ToolsOptions.png"></P
+></DIV
+><P
+>You can choose to have conflicts checked under the
+ following circumstances:</P
+><P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+>After any item is changed (in other words,
+ as soon as the conflict is created)</P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+>Before saving the configuration (including
+ building)</P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+>Never</P
+></LI
+></UL
+><P
+>The method you chose depends on how much you need
+ your configuration to be free of conflicts. You may
+ want to avoid having to clean up all the conflicts at
+ once, or you may want to keep the configuration
+ consistent at all times. If you have major changes to
+ implement, which may resolve the conflicts, then you
+ might want to wait until after you have completed
+ these changes before you check for conflicts.</P
+><DIV
+CLASS="NOTE"
+><BLOCKQUOTE
+CLASS="NOTE"
+><P
+><B
+>Note: </B
+>If you choose to check conflicts after any item
+ is changed, only newly arising conflicts are displayed.
+ If you choose to check for conflicts before saving the
+ configuration, the complete set is
+ displayed.</P
+></BLOCKQUOTE
+></DIV
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="SECT2"
+><H2
+CLASS="SECT2"
+><A
+NAME="AEN1444">Automatic resolution</H2
+><P
+>If you check the “Automatically suggest
+ fixes” check box, a conflicts resolution dialog box
+ will be displayed whenever new conflicts are created. The
+ same dialog box may be displayed at any stage by means of
+ the <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
+CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+>Tools->Resolve Conflicts</I
+></SPAN
+>
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
+CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+></I
+></SPAN
+>menu item.
+ </P
+><P
+>The conflicts resolution dialog box contains two major windows. </P
+><DIV
+CLASS="FIGURE"
+><A
+NAME="AEN1450"><P
+><B
+>Figure 19-6. Resolve conflicts window</B
+></P
+><P
+><IMG
+SRC="pix/Conflicts.png"></P
+></DIV
+><P
+>The upper contains the set of conflicts to be addressed; the
+format of the data being as that of the Conflicts Window. The lower
+window contains a set of proposed resolutions – each entry
+is a suggested configuration item value change that as a whole may
+be expected to lead to the currently selected conflict being resolved. </P
+><P
+>Note that there is no guarantee:</P
+><P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+>that automatic resolutions will be determinable for every
+conflict.</P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> that the resolutions for separate conflicts will be independent.
+In other words, the resolution of one conflict may serve to prevent
+the resolution of another.</P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> that the resolution conflicts will not create further
+conflicts.</P
+></LI
+></UL
+><P
+>The above warnings are, however, conservative. In practice
+(so long as the number and extent of conflicts are limited) automatic
+conflict resolution may be used to good effect to correct problems
+without undue amounts of programmer intervention.</P
+><P
+>In order to select the conflicts to be applied, select or
+clear the check boxes against the resolutions for each proposed
+resolution. By default all resolutions are selected; you can return
+to the default state (in other words, cause all check boxes for
+each conflict to again become checked) by pressing the “Reset” button.
+Note that multiple selection may be used in the resolutions control
+to allow ranges of check boxes to be toggled in one gesture.</P
+><P
+>When you are happy to apply the selected resolutions for each
+conflict displayed, click <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
+CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+>Apply</I
+></SPAN
+>; this will
+apply the resolutions. Alternatively you may cancel from the dialog
+box without any resolutions being applied.</P
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