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- Help on the items in the OPTIONS menu.
-
- * Card options
- * Colors
- * Save settings
-
- CARD OPTIONS: Choosing CARDS in this
- sub-menu will bring up a dialog box
- which will allow you to specify what
- suits will be used and how they will
- be named. Click on the boxes with the
- names of the suits and the court cards
- to type in new names. These names must
- be less than ten letters. Press
- <Enter> after you type in the name.
- The new names will appear in the
- places where the suits are named, in
- the Overview for example. An asterisk
- in the boxes beside the suit and court
- names indicates these cards will be
- included in the deck. Click in these
- boxes to toggle between inclusion and
- exclusion.You can add one or two
- jokers to the deck by clicking in the
- box beside JOKERS. You can only do
- this when the trumps are excluded, as
- the jokers are the first two trump
- cards. This is mainly for working with
- a regular playing deck, which you can
- make by excluding the trumps and one
- of the court cards (e.g. the
- Princesses) and then naming the suits
- and court cards accordingly (Hearts
- instead of Cups etc.). You can choose
- to use reversed cards in your layout
- by clicking in the box beside REVERSE
- until an asterisk appears. When this
- is selected cards may be reversed at
- random during the shuffle. This is for
- the method of determining card dignity
- depending on whether it is dealt right
- side up or reversed. All cards in this
- program are aligned the same so
- reversed cards will have a "R" on
- them. You will normally not use this
- if you have a spread loaded which has
- the compare option set, which is
- another method for determining card
- dignity (See SPREAD help). When you
- exit this dialog box the deck will be
- freshened if you clicked inside any of
- the inclusion boxes beside the suits
- etc. When you open a saved layout the
- deck will change to the way it was
- when that file was saved no matter how
- the card options are set in the box.
-
- COLORS: Choosing this will allow you
- to change the program's various
- colors. A box will appear with the
- items that can be changed, which are:
- The color of the table top (the main
- screen color); The color of menu
- boxes; The color of the text in the
- menus; The color of the dialog boxes;
- The color of the text in the dialog
- boxes; The color of the deck frame,
- which shows up when all the cards are
- dealt. The deck frame color is also
- used for text which appears on the
- cards or deck. Look at each of these
- boxes to see what the current colors
- are and move the cursor onto the menu
- and dialog ones to see what
- highlighted items will look like.
- There are two ways of changing the
- colors. You can move the cursor onto
- the box of the item you want to change
- and instead of clicking on it, you can
- use the <Pgup> and <Pgdn> keys to
- cycle thru the colors. The color you
- see in the box is the unhighlighted
- color until you right-click to finish.
- You can also click on the box you want
- to change and then choose the color
- you want from the color table by left-
- clicking. When you exit, the screen
- will be redrawn with the new colors
- and with any dealt cards placed back
- in the deck in their original
- position.
-
- SAVE SETTINGS: Choose SAVE to save
- the options set in the above two
- commands. The settings of the Face-Up/
- Down and Deal-Top/Right/Left toggles
- in the DECK sub-menu are also saved.
- All these settings are saved in the
- file "Tarot.cfg". Delete this file to
- return to the default program
- settings.
-