Using the Preferences dialog, you can customize CreaText's behaviour. The Preferences dialog is organized with a so called 'tab panel'. Select the tab labeled with the topic you wish to access.<BR>
Note: If you open the Preferences dialog and you cannot select any tab, just close the dialog and try again. This is a problem caused by the programming tool I use (REALbasic). You could fix it by giving CreaText lots of RAM, but I think it is exaggerated to give such a simple app 20 MB or more.<BR>
By the way: If you want to use CreaText's default settings, just push the cool button on the bottom-left, labeled 'Reset to defaults'.
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<B>Automatically</B><BR>
Here you can choose what should be done when the application starts by a double click:
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<I> Blank document</I> <BR>
Creates a new document without any content
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<I> New document</I><BR>
Shows the 'New document' dialog
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<I> Open dialog</I><BR>
Shows the 'Open' dialog which lets you select a file
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<I> Nothing</I><BR>
The applications doesn't do anything
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<B>Splash</B><BR>
Here you can select if you wish to see the splash screen on startup
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<B>Font</B><BR>
This lets you choose the font face and the font size of the text field in the main window.
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<B>Tabs</B><BR>
If you check the option to use space instead of a tab, everytime you press the tab button on your keyboard in the main window, a space character will be inserted instead of the tab.<BR>
The Tab size defines the width of the Tabs in pixels.
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<B>Options</B><BR>
<I>Change special characters in real-time</I><BR>
If you check this option, special, German and French characters are changed to HTML characters in real time.<BR>
<I>Show current character</I><BR>
If you check this option, the main window displays the current character number. See also <A href="work">Working with CreaText</A>.<BR>
<I>Auto indent</I><BR>
If you check this option, a line's leading spaces and tabs will also be used in the next line.<BR>
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<B>Window size(pixel)</B><BR>
Here you can enter the width and height for new main windows. You can also change this in the main window when choosing the item 'Set window size' from the 'File' menu.
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<B>Insert HTML in blank documents</B><BR>
This controls if you want new blank documents to be filled with a HTML frame.
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Here you control the color of the Tag coloring and the Tag coloring behavior of the main window.<BR><BR>
<B>Tags</B><BR>
This is the color for Tags. You change it by pressing the colored area.<BR>
<B>Parameters/Attributes</B><BR>
This is the color for Tag parameters or attributes, like 'src'. You change it by pressing the colored area.<BR>
<B>Doctype color</B><BR>
This is the color for comments. You change it by pressing the colored area.<BR>
<B>Comments</B><BR>
This is the color for comments. You change it by pressing the colored area.<BR><BR>
<B>Automatically</B><BR>
If you check the option 'When opening files', CreaText colors all Tags when you open an existing file. If you have a very old computer (like me) and you are working with large documents with many Tags in it, better disable this option because CreaText's Tag coloring is very slow.<BR>
If you check the option 'Real-time', CreaText colors all Tags when you enter a Tag in any line and when you paste some text from the clipboard. Unfortunatly, it's no true real-time Tag coloring, so when you insert some HTML code using drag & drop or using CreaText's dialogs, you have to manually recolor the document or line.<BR>
If the Tag Coloring has some mistakes or is too slow, think of this: THIS APP IS FREEWARE AND I'M JUST ONE PERSON DOING THIS ALL :)
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<B>Opened file's creator</B><BR>
'Use original creator': When you open a file and save it, the original Creator code is used. That means, if you open an Internet Explorer file and make some changes, it will be saved as an Internet Explorer file. If you check the 'Use also when saving as' box, it would even be an Internet Explorer file if you selected the menu command 'Save as'. If you don't check that box, it will be saved as a CreaText file.<BR>
'Use CreaText creator': When you open the file and save it, the file will always be a CreaText file, regardless what it was before.<BR> <BR>
<B>Opened file's format</B><BR>
You can choose to keep the orignal file format or to change to Mac, DOS or UNIX file format.
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<B>Defaults</B><BR>
These three text fields lets you enter default author, publisher and copyright. So the next time you use the "Meta Tags" dialog these defaults will be automatically inserted (of course you can still change them).
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<B>Bring CreaText to foreground...</B><BR>
If you check this box, CreaText will be put into foreground when you drag & drop a file onto a CreaText main window.
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<B>Multiple files</B><BR>
When you drag & drop several files onto a CreaText main window, they can be seperated by a <BR> or a <P> Tag.
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<A href="../index">[Table of Contents]</A>
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<A href="intro">[Intro]</A>
<A href="new">[New document]</A>
<A href="menu">[Menus]</A>
<A href="prefs">[Preferences]</A>
<A href="work">[Working with CT]</A>
<A href="cc">[Color chooser]</A>
<A href="context">[Contextual menu]</A>
<A href="extend">[Extending CT]</A>
<A href="control">[Controlling CT]</A>
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