Picture Preferences Tab - User Preferences Dialog Box

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Description

Window Size

Specifies the default window size for pictures.  You can create windows full size, half the height or width of the screen, or a quarter of the screen.  

Automatically Determine Document Size

Select this check box to enable the Document Width and Document Height fields to allow you to define your own coordinate system that differs from the default logical coordinate system of 4:3 horizontal to vertical resolution.  You should not change this setting unless you are familiar with the coordinate system used for  measuring picture height and width.  Otherwise, objects may not animate as expected.  

Document Height

Specifies the default picture height in logical units or postscript points.

Document Width

Specifies the default width for pictures in logical units or postscript points.

Highlight Timeout Interval

Specifies the length of time an object remains highlighted at run-time.  When the specified interval expires, the highlight disappears.  You can enter the time in hundredths of a second.  

Grid Interval

Specifies the number of pixels between grid points.  

Background Color

Use this button to open the Select Color dialog box where you can choose the default picture background color.

Fade Color

Use this button to open the Select Color dialog box where you can choose the default picture fade color.

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Description

Prompt On Delete

Select this check box to be prompted to confirm the deletion of an animation in the Basic Animation dialog box and the Command Expert dialog box.

Always Show Basic Animation Dialog

Select this check box to display the Basic Animation dialog box when you double-click an object or select Animations from an object's right-click menu.  

If this check box is cleared, the Advanced Animations dialog box appears.  

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Description

Translate Picture On Open

Select this check box if you want to replace the text strings in all of your pictures with a selected language file (if it exists) when you open them in the run-time environment.

If this check box is selected, the TranslateOnOpen and LanguageDesired properties on each picture's Properties window cannot be changed.

If this check box is cleared, you can configure the TranslateOnOpen and LanguageDesired properties at the individual picture level.

Language

Specifies the language that all of your pictures' text strings will appear in when the pictures are opened in run mode. This field is available only when the Translate Picture on Open check box is selected.

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Description

Title Bar

Select this check box to indicate whether your pictures appear with or without title bars.  

System Menu

Select this check box to indicate whether you are creating pictures with or without a System menu, or Maximize, Minimize, and Close buttons.  

Resizable

Select this check box to indicate whether you can or cannot resize pictures.  

Always On Top

Select this check box to indicate that your pictures will automatically float on top of all other open documents.  Typically, this feature is used to create detail pictures that you always want to display on top of other pictures.  

Grid Enabled

Select this check box to indicate whether or not the grid in pictures is automatically displayed.  

Snap To Grid

Select this check box to indicate whether or not your pictures will automatically align objects to the grid.  

Click And Stick Enabled

Select this check box to indicate whether or not your pictures show or hide visual cues as to which objects can be selected and which object is currently selected.  

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Description

Enable Picture Cache

Select this check box to enable picture caching, which reads and opens previously opened pictures from memory. Clear this check box to indicate that picture files will be opened from the disk drive.  

Cache Size

Specifies the number of pictures (from 1-99) you want in the cache.