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Starting the program
On the Main Menu, click the Setup tab then click Preferences - GA698
Screen BS698S01 appears
In this section:
About the Program
The Preferences program
allows each user to personalise the system.
Screenshot
This initial screen of the program shows the name of the active User.
For simplicity, only one user
profile is enabled in Ideas Genie.
More User
Profiles
This feature is disabled in Ideas Genie
About Fonts, Font Sizes and Font Bold
Ideas Genie allows you to select your Fonts, Font Sizes. You can also opt to display the
font in Bold
type.
If you have good eyesight, the system looks best at 8 point.
Screens can be repositioned and resized so that the screen cascade is visible when you run the programs.
When you choose large fonts, you may have to resize to enlarge screens, so that the captions are not truncated
Font Bold may require a slightly larger screen size.
Thus, there is a practical limit to the font size that can be used.
It is a matter of trial and error, depending on the fonts selected.
The system has been designed and tested to 12 point bold for the popular fonts.
If pushing to the limit
- start a program
- click in the title bar and drag the screen so that the top left corner is positioned close to the top and close to the left of the available background
- click in the bottom right of the screen and drag the screen to it maximum width and height
- when you close the screen, the settings are saved and will be restored next time you use that screen
When screens are maximised, you may lose the cascaded screens effect i.e. when you click a button on screen to go to another, you may not see any of the initial
screen.
That is not a problem in regard to program functionality - its simply a visual consideration.
Data list boxes
An exception exists in the case of data listings (data displayed in rows and
columns)
In this edition of Ideas Genie, the individual columns cannot be resized or moved.
To allow the columns to align with the column headers, non
proportional fonts are used for all list boxes. The fixed font in our design (Courier New) overrides the font
selection you make in Preferences.
The Preferences you select for Font sizes and Font Bold settings are respected - but in Courier New
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Overriding the Global Font sizes
Do Fonts and fontsizes selected in the Preferences program apply to all screens in the system?
By default, yes, they are global. However, a unique
feature in Ideas Genie allows you to override the global settings for specific screens.
Again, these exceptions are User Profile specific - User A and User B can have different settings.
Screen
sizes vary markedly in the system.
If a screen has only a few fields then (by design) it can be quite small.
If you have selected a large font size
you can easily double (and more) the size of a screen to accommodate the larger captions and fields.
On the other hand, a screen which has numerous data
fields or wide list boxes is naturally large.
They cant be enlarged in the same proportions to accommodate very large font sizes.
The Ideas Genie solution:
On naturally large screens, we have provided a Font
button.
NOT ACTIVATED IN IDEAS GENIE at this moment.
About
Window Shading
Set your preference using the checkbox
This feature is described in the Setting Up section
About Screen Resize messages
eckbox
About the Classic Style program selection screen
Set your
preference using the checkbox
This feature is described in the Setting Up section
Click outside of windows to close program
This feature
gives you an additional method to close programs.
Explain by example
- Start the Preferences Program
Screen GA698S01 appears
- Uncheck the checkbox Click outside of windows to close program
- Click Save changes (program will close)
- Now start the Preferences Program again
- Click below or to the right OUTSIDE of the screen GA698S01
The program screen will temporarily close then open again
Now try the other setting
- Check the checkbox Click outside of windows to close program
- Click Save changes (program will close)
- Now start the Preferences Program again
- Click below or to the right OUTSIDE of the screen GA698S01
The program screen and the program will close
Apart from the obvious method of clicking the Close buttons, there are two other Quick Close options, described in this article (in
Getting Started).
This screenshot summarises the alternative methods to close programs and screens.
Showing Program Names
Set your preference using the checkbox
This
feature is described in the Setting Up section
About Allow changes to HELP
This checkbox is for allowing a user to write help for Ideas Genie.
This feature is disabled in
normal installations - enabled in development mode.
The switch allows the developer to edit the help text and save changes while using the system.
About the Advanced User option
Referring to this screenshot:-
From a user perspective, the main purpose of this feature is to control an important feature in the
program Open Another Database-GA626
When checked, an extra checkbox Make this my START UP folder appears in screen GA626S01.
Read all about the
Make this my START UP folder feature.
The Advanced User
checkbox is unchecked by default.
Check this only if you intend to use GA626 to use the feature described.
About the Register by E-mail option
If you don’t have an internet
connection, we have devised an alternative registration method.
Please contact us if you need to register by this method.
We will ask you to check this
checkbox.
Otherwise, leave this checkbox unchecked.
About the Language feature
About Language Flags
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