Settings Requester
Purpose
In the settings requester, you can change many aspects of AWeb. The changed
settings can be saved, only used for this session, or cancelled.
Opening the Settings Requester
The settings requester is opened by selecting the Settings /
Change Settings... menu item.
Controlling the settings requester
Because there are far too many parameters to change to fit in one window,
the settings requester is organized in pages. You can select a page from
the chooser gadget in the upper part of the window.
A chooser gadget looks like this: ![[________|<<]](chooser.iff)
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A click in the wide part of the gadget pops up a menu from which you can
choose a page. A click in the 
part switches to the next page; holding the SHIFT key while you click
switches to the previous page.
The requester offers the following pages:
- Browser 1: Font settings
- Change the fonts and style the browser uses for different types of
text.
- Browser 2: Appearance
- Change different aspects of the browser appearance. Currently these
include the link colours and underlining.
- Screen 1: Screen
- Let AWeb open on the default public screen, on a named public screen,
or open its own public screen.
- Screen 2: Windows
- Change the initial location and size of the browser window, and the
network status window.
- Screen 3: Palette
- Change the screen colours for AWeb's own screen.
- Network 1: General
- Change general network settings, including image loading and your
home page.
- Network 2: Proxy
- Configure AWeb to use proxies.
- Network 3: External programs
- Configure external mail and ftp programs.
- Program 1: General
- Change some general settings of the program that don't fit in other
pages. These include save and temporary path, and cache sizes.
- Program 2: External programs
- Configure external editor and HTML source viewer.
- MIME types and external viewers
- Configure the MIME types AWeb should recognize, and the external
viewers to use.
Closing the requester
The bottom region of the requester contains three buttons:
- Save
- Apply all changes and save the settings. The next time you start AWeb
the same settings will be used.
- Use
- Apply all changes for this session only.
Unless you save the settings later using the
Settings / Save Settings menu item, they will be forgotten
the next time you start AWeb.
- Cancel
- Don't apply changes.