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4.10 Settings

In this chapter the settings of fxPAINT are described.

4.10.1 Settings

The settings determine settings that affect fxPAINT as a whole.

You can make the following settings:

Own screen and mode
Here you can determine, whether fxPAINT shall run on an own screen or the Workbench®. An own screen is recommended. This setting only takes effect after a restart of the program.

Bold screen font<
Uses a bold font for some GUI elements.

Display backdrop
If this option is active, fxPAINT uses fxPAINT:GUIPics/BackDrop.gfx as background pattern. ATTENTION: This option can affect fxPAINT's GUI performance negatively due to the way Intuition® works.

Use AXIS
Here you can set, whether you want to use the display calibration system AXIS for rendering the images. A description of AXIS can be found in the next subchapter.

Userstatus
Set your level of experience here. Depending on your level of experience, some actions will be done "without resistance" instead of asking for a confirmation, first.

GUI style
Here you can set the style (Skin) of the fxPAINT userinterface. "IO ONE" is the new and fresh style introduced with fxPAINT 2.0, whereas "fx Classic" uses the original fxPAINT 1.x style. If you prefer the classic look of OS 3.x, choose OS 3.x style, here.

Bubble help
This option can be used to enable/disable the bubble help within fxPAINT. You can also change this setting within the horizontal bar on top of the screen.

TT Fontdir
fxPAINT supports TTEngine by Grzegorz Kraszewski. If you have it installed, you can choose the directory in which you put your TTF-files, here.

Printing system
For historical reasons the AMIGA® has many different printing systems. Normally you won't need to change this option but leave it at "Auto". Only if you experience problems or you know exactly what you are doing you should change this setting.

Thumbnail size
This setting determines the size of the thumbnails in fxALBUM.

Save icons
fxPAINT can save an icon for every saved graphics. "Preset" saved a standard icon for the chosen fileformat whereas NewIcon, OS 3.5+, MorphOS (small, 64, and big, 128) save a shrinked version of the image as an icon of the respective format.

Adapt suffixes
This option makes fxPAINT adapt the file suffix of saved files, depending on the format to save.

Use tableau
This option determines whether the information received by tableau drivers should be used.

Pressure sensity
In order to meet your individual requirements and preferences, you can determine here how the pressure data received shall be weighted. Values smaller zero result in a decrease of pressure sensity whereas value greater than zero result in an increase.

Max. queued mouse steps
The AmigaOS® doesn't send a message to fxPAINT for every mouse movement. Thus edges may occur even with round movement. An increase of this value fixes this problem but lets fxPAINT react slower, as it has to do more calculations. This should not be noticable on faster computers, though.

Enable mousewheel-support
If you have connected a mouse with mousewheel and appropriate driver (!) - like e.g. the "4D+ Mouse" by VMC - you can switch on and off support for it, here.

PPC-merge barrier
This value determines, upon which number of changed pixels a frequent called lowlevel routine shall be executed on an existing PowerPC. The theory behind this is, that an 680x0 CPU may already be done until a PowerPC returns control from context switches. Normally, you should leave this setting to the default. Under MorphOS this option is no more required and is thus disabled.

Save and Use
Uses the made settings permanently or until you quit fxPAINT. Some settings will only take effect after a restart of the program.


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