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- Workbench Tutorial Part 2
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- PART 1: The Icon Information Requester
- PART 2: Customising Workbench
- >> PART 3: Customising Workbench Part 2
- PART 4: Add-Ons and Hacks
- PART 5: Startup Sequences
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- If you can remember all those many moons ago, in Issue 3, we left the
- Workbench tutorial after explaining how to set up the various
- physical attributes of your Workbench screen. This issue, we're going
- to be explaining the hardware, invisible, attributes, such as Printer
- Prefs, Serial Prefs, etc.
-
- The first thing you might want to set up is your Locale Preferences.
- This is only of relevance to WB3+ users, so people using lower than
- that, upgrade.
-
- The Locale editor allows you to set your preferred language and time
- zone that Workbench will operate in. The top left of the Locale window
- shows you the available languages that you can use in Workbench.
- Click on one, and it appears in the 'Preferred languages' box. You
- can set the country you're in aswell, click on the country in the
- bottom left box.
-
- The main feature of this window is the large world map which is
- located at the bottom right of the window. This sets your timezone.
- Just click on your area of the country you live in and the relavent
- time zone will be highlighted.
-
- Moving on now, we'll take a quick look at the Input Editor. This is
- the thing which allows you to set the speed your mouse pointer goes
- at, the keyboard set up you want to use, and your keyboard speed
- settings.
-
- Looking at the top section now, the mouse section. Notice there's a
- scroll bar which lets you choose from one of three positions. This
- is how fast your mouse will go. 1 being the slowest and 3 being the
- fastest. If you select one of those, it will take immediate effect
- so you'll notice the speed change.
-
- You'll also notice that the pointer moves at the same speed as your
- mouse. Fine, you might say, but what if you're using some huge
- screenmode on a graphics card? It'd take ages to move the mouse from
- one end of the screen to the other, so Commodore implemented the
- Acceleration feature which you can use. The mouse accelerates as
- you move it, so it gets to where it's going faster.
-
- I personally use speed 2+Acceleration on a puny 640x256 screen, and
- that's the only decent speed combination I can find. If you're using
- a larger screen you might want to use 3+Acceleration, but I wouldn't
- recommend using speed 1, with or without acceleration because it's
- just too damn slow.
-
- You can also set the double click time. Note that the value next to
- the scroller that sets the double click delay is measured in 50ths of
- a second (or 60ths of a second depending on whether you're using
- NTSC or PAL) So a value of 50, would obviously mean the double click
- delay would be 1 second. I use 75.
-
- The two boxes and buttons below this allow you to see how long the
- delay is, graphically. The second of the buttons let you test the
- double click. Click once, and again and it'll tell you if you
- double clicked in time.
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