3.41 General Settings

Microdot-II has a 'general settings' GUI which allows you to set the colours, headers, paths and button bar for the main Microdot-II interface. This setup is general to all users, whoever is logged into and using Microdot-II.

Misc

• Time zone - is the time zone +/- GMT.

• Daylight saving time - allows you to adjust the daylight saving time for your country, in conjunction with the summer/winter period.

• Data directory - select the directory where message data will be saved. The default is 'progdir:data' and we suggest you leave this as is.

Colours

One of the best options for Microdot is that you can select practically any colour for nearly every option within the message handler.

The Group List is the main GUI where you see all your mail folders and newsgroups.

There are also colour options for the Message List and the Message Reader. Our advice is just to experiment with the colours until you find the best solution.

Headers

The headers section within the preferences allows you to add a list of headers to be shown when you read a messages. These are, of course, in addition to the normal to:, from:, subject:

These are shown when you select Show Significant Headers from the reader option within the Settings menu.

Buttons

This section allows you to define the button bank within three sections of Microdot-II:

The Main GUI (named as "Group List" within the button prefs)
Group List (named as "Group Contents" within the button prefs)
Message Reader (named as "Reader Buttons" within the button prefs)

• Image: use the requestor button to find the image for the button you want to define.

• Label: assign a "label" to your button. Basically this would be the text if you selected "text only" view mode or "text and icons".

• Hotkey: assign a hotkey to your button ctrl+k, alt+p etc

• Action: assign an "action" to your button. There will be a list of actions/commands you can choose.

• Font: if you choose "text only" or "images and text" within the view mode selector, choose the font with this option.

• View Mode: view your button bar as "icon only", "icons + text", "text only" or even remove the icon bar altogether!

PGP

This section refers to the options you have configured within your PGP settings. For further information about each of these options, please read your PGP guide.

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