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Customising Word Hound
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Word Hound's Window Colours
Word Hound allows you to change the colours used in three of it's windows
(the 'Selection', 'Display' and 'Quick Definition' windows). Each of these
windows use five main colours :
Name Used for Default
1) Background Window Background Colour Dark Grey (5)
2) Foreground Main text in Display and White (0)
Quick Definition windows
3) Dictionary Name of data file entry Cyan (f)
is located within
4) Word Highlighting the word used Yellow (9)
in search
5) Select Highlighting selected word Green (a)
in Display or Quick Defn.
Other than the 'Startup' file (see section 1), there are two ways you can
change the colours used in the windows.
1) When Word Hound is running you can change any of the above colours using
the menu. Simply call up the main menu and then located the 'Colours'
sub-menu. This menu then has five sub-menus (one for each of the above)
which contain the usual colour selection menus.
When you change a colour by this method, the effect of that change is not
immediate. The colour change will occur when you next bring up one of the
windows.
2) Before you run Word Hound you can set up the WordHound$Options variable
to hold the colours you want for the windows. This variable must contain
(just) five single hex digits, one for each of the five listed (above)
colour types.
So to set this variable with the default settings, you would type :
*Set WordHound$Options 50f9a
This variable has been superseded by the 'Word Hound Startup file', which
will take precedence over this variable.
Word Hound only reads the WordHound$Options variable when it starts up, and
if it does not contain 5 (and only 5) single hex digits it will ignore the
variable and set the default colours.
Word Hound's System Variables
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Word Hound used 3 system variables :
WordHound$Dir - Points to the application directory, tells Word Hound
where to find it's sprites files, templates, etc.
WordHound$Path - Points to the directory (directories) which contain
index and data files. By default this is the same as
WordHound$Dir.
WordHound$Options - See (above) section on Window Colours. Kept only for
compatibility, you should use the 'Word Hound Startup file'.
WordHound$Init - Points to your 'Word Hound startup file'. This allows
users to have their own preference files. By default this
variable points to a file called 'Setup' inside the
application directory.
Word Hound's Startup Banner
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If you find you can't live with the startup banner, you can stop it
appearing by simply renaming the file called 'Banner' which is inside the
application directory.
Word Hound <-> Impression hotkeys
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The hotkeys used by Word Hound for hotlinking to Impression can be changed
easily at any time. This might become necessary if Impression (at some later
date starts to use the keys chosen for some function).
To change the hotkeys used simply add (or alter) lines in your 'Word Hound
Startup File'. Values to use should be looked up in the relevant manuals
(eg. Prog. Ref. Manual), or you can use the textual form.