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Preferences

To change application preferences, select the Preferences command from the Settings menu. This launches a dialog, that will be described below.

The preferences dialog has two main parts: Global Preferences and M3X-Text Preferences. Don't be suprised if the second one isn't present. Your binary is probably compiled without m3x-text support.

Global Preferences

On this page of the dialog, you'll see some checkboxes and comboboxes (see Figure 5.). These are used to change some global options.

[ Figure 5 ]

Figure 5. Preferences dialog (Global options)

As you probably noticed, you can change which column to use for sorting the list on the main window. (You did not ?! Then go and click on the list headers!). With chagning the Sort column property, you do the same.

Changing Sort order will - as its name says - change the order of the sorting. Changing this has the same affect as clicking twice on a list header. Unfortunately clicking around can be confusing, so you'd better use this dialog to change the order...

When Automatic sorting is checked, the list on the main window is automatically sorted. This takes up some CPU power, but not that much that you'd want to turn it off. Well, this is just here to let you have as much control as possible.

Selecting multiple items is enabled by default. If you feel confused or dizzy after clicking around in a large database, feel free to turn it off...

If you want to save the preferences to the global configuration file too, check the Save global configuration checkbox.

M3X-Text Preferences

This pages allows everyone to customize the way m3x-text is launched. It can be launched via an external terminal program (such as Eterm or xterm), or you can use the embedded one, a zvt derivate. Now lets see Figure 6!

[ Figure 6 ]

Figure 6. Preferences dialog (M3X-Text preferences)

The first thing we must have a look at, is the toggle button, labeled Use internal terminal, at the bottom of this page. If it is turned on, the internal terminal will be used, and you cannot modify the launching command line. If it is turned off, the only thing you can modify is the command line used to launch the program. However, when the session is saved, all options are saved, it doesn't matter if they'll be used or not.

When using an external terminal program, you can set the command line, which will be used to start m3x-text. You can use the $program variable as many times as you want, it will be replaced by the string m3x-text before passing the commandline to the system. Of course, you don't have to use it, you can enter the path directly.

That's all about the external terminal... Let's have a look at the options you can change when using the internal one!

The Scrollback buffer property controls how many lines you can scroll backwards. I think 128 lines is a fair value.

Width Width and Height you control the size of the terminal window, however, it will depend on the size of the font you choose too...

You can choose the font for the terminal by clicking on the button showing Fixed | 12 on the screenshot. It will pop up a font selection dialog.

I think the two toggle buttons, Blinking cursor and Enable bell speak for themselves. Anyway, the first one controls wheter the cursor should blink or not, and the second one controls wheter an alarm bell should be sounded whenever you do something wrong.


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